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Virgin seeks the French connection with
Carphone Virgin Mobile is to launch a service in
France next year in a joint venture with Carphone
Warehouse, the two companies will announce
today. The new service will inject competition
into a market that is currently dominated by just
three players and boost the penetration of mobile
telephony in France. In a joint statement to the
stock market, they will announce plans for a
virtual network that will buy spare airtime on
France Telecoms Orange network...
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Carphone Warehouse already has 176 retail outlets
in France under the Phone House brand name and a
mobile service in Brittany called Omer. It is
understood that the new service will be launched
under the Virgin name It will launch no later
than June next year. Last week, it emerged that
Sir Richard Branson, Virgins founder, had
shelved a planned 2.5bn (1.4bn) flotation of
his fast-growing US mobile phone venture
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Earlier this month, Carphone Warehouse unveiled a
35 per cent increase in its pre-tax profit for
the first half of the financial year. At the time
it played down speculation that it was interested
in bidding for either One.TelFrance has long
lagged behind its western European neighbours in
mobile penetration. As Italy and the UK continue
to edge above 100 per cent, mobile penetration in
France, as forecast by Pyramid Research, will
reach just 78 per cent this year.
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Telephoning Trends
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Study pages Idiomatic language and extended
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