38,6 million customers in France as of 31 december 2002

13 January 2003

During the fourth quarter 2002, net growth of operator customers, including Overseas départements and Mayotte, was:

- Orange: 420 700 customers

- SFR: 398 400 customers

- Bouygues Telecom: 14 600 customers

- for a total of: 833 700 new customers

This means that, as of 31 December 2002, there were 38 585 300 wireless customers in France, for an equipment rate of 64.0%.

Customer numbers of the top three operators at 31 December were:

- Orange: 19 215 500 customers

- SFR: 13 546 900 customers

- Bouygues Telecom: 5 822 900 customers

This represents market share of:

- 49.8% for Orange

- 35.1% for SFR

- 15.1% for Bouygues Telecom

The customer growth rate year on year (between 31 December 2001 and 31 December 2002) was 4.3%. It was 2.2% during the last quarter 2002 compared to the third quarter 2002.

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