French mobile phone users reached 48 million 58 thousand people eight adults with mobile phone

According to French telecommunications industry regulation authority (ARCEP) annual report, 5 per 4 in 2005 the French have a mobile phone.

By December 2005, the French mobile phone users has reached 48 million 58 thousand people, an increase of more than 3 million 500 thousand people in 2004, an increase of up to 7.9%. Is a surge in the number of mobile phone users by the end of time. Although the first 3 quarters of 2005 growth of around 1%, but by the end of the year rose to 4%. ARCEP said that this growth is far below the European average.

The mobile phone is the fastest growing region in the region of Paris and Corsica, respectively 111.8% and 102.1%, the slowest growth in Auvergne and Normandy area in about 60%.

Another feature of the French mobile phone users are signing the number of users reached 30 million 500 thousand people, 17 million 600 thousand people Mobile Recharge Card greatly exceed the number of users, and the number of subscribers is increasing, while the number of users of prepaid card from the third quarter has decreased only slightly, to the end of the year.

2005 mobile phone subscribers per capita monthly consumption of 51.1 euros, while prepaid card users per capita consumption of only $17.6 per month.

ARCEP also announced that the use of multimedia mobile phone users reached 13 million 830 thousand by the end of 2005, accounting for 30.2% of all mobile phone users. Mobile phone operators SFR and ORANGE said its 3G mobile phone users in January 2006 were more than 1 million people.

In addition, a total of 13 billion 200 million mobile phone text messages were issued in 2005, the average monthly mobile phone text messages sent 25.6.