France Handset Vendor Marketshare by Operator: Q2 2012

The French mobile phone market grew +2% year-on-year in Q2 2012. While the sovereign debt crisis in strangling growth across much of Western Europe, the French market continues to be buoyed by the arrival of Free Mobile in Q1, which brought an aggressive pricing strategy the incumbent carriers are being forced to respond to. This report tracks handset vendor market share at the four major French operators -- Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free Mobile -- from Q1 2009 to Q2 2012. The report is an important tool for measuring the health of individual handset brands at the operator level.