France's mobile market is in a deflationary squeeze that the headline numbers partly conceal. Catalogue prices for mobile services fell 16.7% since operators introduced smaller, cheaper plans from 2023 onwards, and mobile service revenue dropped 3.5% in 2025 — the first decline after six consecutive years of growth.
Yet the average monthly bill for residential customers stabilised at €16.1 excluding VAT in 2024, because some operators simultaneously raised prices on existing subscribers even as new plan prices fell. [Arcep] [ARCEP]
The structural tension is that data volume has become the dominant pricing axis — consumers will pay sharply more for larger bundles but resist paying for anything else — while operator cost structures per base station range from €140,556 to €201,733 per unit of bandwidth, leaving thin room for further price cuts without revenue deterioration. Free Mobile's entry into the market in 2012 set a floor that has never been decisively reclaimed, and the four-operator field now competes on gigabyte density rather than brand differentiation. [Toulouse School of Economics]
The four operators span a published price range from €2 to €84.99 per month, but the commercially active battleground sits between €9.99 and €37.99 — where gigabyte density, not brand, determines subscriber choice.
Orange France's Série Spéciale 130Go 5G plan is priced at €20.99 per month for new subscribers — a €4 discount on its standard tariff of €24.99 — and carries no contractual commitment. At the upper end of the Orange range, the Forfait 500Go 5G+ plan is listed at €84.99 per month with a 24-month commitment. SFR's tariff document from October 2024 shows price points at €16.99 and €30.99 per month for residential customers, covering the lower-mid and mid-tier segments. [Orange France] [Orange] [SFR]
Free Mobile is the reference point the rest of the market prices against. Its entry-level offer at €2 per month is documented in its published tariff brochure. At the opposite end of its range, the Forfait Free 5G+ delivers 350 GB with unlimited calls and SMS for €19.99 per month — no commitment required — as verified in June 2026. Bouygues Telecom's promotional pricing for customers holding a 20 GB or larger plan reduces to €27.99 per month after a €7 monthly discount. On specific call charges, Bouygues lists a tariff structure of €1.99 per call plus €0.38 per minute for certain communication types outside the main bundle. [Free Mobile] [How to France] [Bouygues Telecom]
SFR's published tariff document is dated 22 October 2024; current SFR pricing may differ. No 2026 SFR tariff sheet was retrieved.
Every French operator structures its plans around a monthly gigabyte allowance. Voice and SMS are universally unlimited in mid-range and premium tiers. The pricing unit that discriminates between plans, and between operators, is the gigabyte.
| Included data allowance | Price premium vs. no-data plan (€/month) |
|---|---|
| 2 GB | 15.1 |
| 5 GB | 33.3 |
| 14 GB | 138.4 |
Arcep defines the baseline pricing architecture of a French mobile plan as a monthly fee that includes voice, SMS and mobile internet, with any out-of-bundle usage charged per minute, per SMS or per gigabyte. The regulator caps the per-gigabyte surcharge for roaming at €1.10 per GB, reducing to €1.00 per GB from 2027. Within the Roam Like At Home zone, operators may not restrict unlimited voice or SMS allowances: if a plan includes unlimited calls domestically, those calls remain unlimited when roaming in the EU. [ARCEP]
The academic evidence confirms that data volume carries by far the largest price premium of any plan feature. Tariffs with 5 GB data allowances are about €33.3 more expensive per month than tariffs with no data allowance; those with 14 GB allowances are about €138.4 more expensive. In absolute terms, one minute of voice in a limited-minutes plan costs about €0.11, while unlimited national voice calls add only €24.4 to the plan price compared with the magnitude of data premiums. This means voice is structurally underpriced relative to its marginal cost once bundled — operators have effectively used unlimited voice as a bundle anchor to shift the competitive conversation entirely onto data. [Econstor]
By 2022, all four French operators had incorporated unlimited calls and messaging as standard in their 5G plans. SFR was at that time the only operator offering a genuinely unlimited 5G data plan. Orange's 5G plans in 2022 delivered an average of €0.19 per GB — rising to €0.28 per GB after the 12-month promotional period expired — across its 140 GB, 150 GB and 220 GB tiers. SFR's non-unlimited 5G plans showed the same €0.19 per GB average, also increasing to €0.28 post-promotion. [FRD Innovation Research]
The trajectory since 2022 has been towards larger data bundles at lower per-gigabyte prices. Free Mobile's Forfait Free 5G+ now delivers 350 GB at €19.99 per month — a per-GB cost well below the 2022 operator averages. Orange's treatment of data overages is to throttle speed rather than charge out-of-bundle fees, which means the gigabyte allowance functions more as a quality threshold than a hard consumption limit. The practical implication is that the value metric is not simply gigabytes-included but gigabytes-at-full-speed — a distinction that premium-tier plans are beginning to exploit through 5G+ differentiation. [How to France] [Orange]
The per-GB figures for Orange and SFR 5G plans (VA-7, VA-8) are from a July 2022 trade press analysis and reflect pricing at that date. Per-GB economics have almost certainly improved further since, but no 2025–2026 per-GB calculation was retrieved from the corpus.
Multiple independent sources converge on a pre-tax monthly spend of roughly €14.90 to €16.10 for the average French mobile subscriber. Consumers will pay more for data and network size but resist higher prices for almost anything else.
| Period | Measure / Scope | Avg monthly bill (€ excl. VAT) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2023 | Average monthly mobile bill per SIM (Arcep) | €15.20 | Arcep / Ma French Life, Jan 2024 |
| Sep 2023 | Average monthly mobile package price (Ariase) | €16.50 | Ariase / The Connexion, Oct 2023 |
| 2024 | Average monthly revenue per SIM card (Arcep) | €14.90 | Arcep |
| ~Jul 2024 | Average monthly mobile subscription price (Ariase barometer) | €12.93 | Ariase / The Connexion, Jul 2024 |
| Apr 2025 | Average price of 100 GB package over 3 years (Ariase) | €13.37 | Ariase / The Connexion, Apr 2025 |
| Q4 2025 | Average monthly mobile plan invoice (Ariase/BonForfait) | €17.88 | BonForfait, Apr 2026 |
Arcep's most recent full-year figure puts the average monthly mobile spend at €14.9 excluding VAT in 2024. The same regulator's observatory records the average residential forfait customer's bill at €16.1 excluding VAT in 2024, with the difference from the all-subscriber figure reflecting the inclusion of prepaid and low-usage SIMs in the broader measure. A broker measure from the fourth quarter of 2025 puts the average monthly plan invoice at €17.88 — a figure that includes VAT and appears to track a slightly different population of plan-holders. Taken together, the pre-tax spend band of €14.90 to €16.10 is the most reliable anchor for what French consumers actually pay. [Arcep] [ARCEP] [BonForfait]
The trajectory of this figure matters as much as the level. At end-September 2023 the average bill was €15.2 per month before taxes. One year earlier, Ariase estimated the figure at €16.5 per month. The direction since 2023 is gently downward, driven not by demand weakness but by the introduction of lower-priced plans with smaller data allowances — a structural repositioning confirmed by Arcep. However, Ariase's separate tracking of 100 GB package prices shows a fall from €15.08 per month in April 2024 to €13.37 in April 2025, a steeper decline for this specific tier. For 20 GB plans over 24 months, the average fell to €10.18 per month as of April 2025. [Ma French Life] [The Connexion] [Arcep]
Academic discrete-choice research provides the most precise willingness-to-pay estimates for specific plan features. Consumers are willing to pay €1.30 more per month to reduce the commitment period from one year to six months — a meaningful premium that explains the commercial logic of no-commitment positioning. Network size carries a larger premium: consumers will pay €2.50 more per month to be on a larger network. This network-size premium provides a structural advantage to Orange as the network perceived as largest, though the corpus does not establish current network size rankings directly. [Elsevier]
The early academic work on French tariffs using Orange's database from 2011 to 2014 found that tariffs with subsidised handsets were on average €11.8 more expensive than those without. As handset subsidies have largely exited the French market, this premium has effectively been unbundled — shifting consumer choice rather than eliminating the willingness to pay a higher price when a device is included. The 24.4% single-year drop in average subscription price reported by Ariase for a period ending mid-2024 reflects a moment of acute catalogue repricing rather than a sustained structural shift in consumer budgets. [Econstor] [The Connexion]
The €17.88 figure from BonForfait (WI-4) is Q4 2025 and likely includes VAT, making it not directly comparable to Arcep's pre-tax figures. The analyst note flags this as a measurement difference, not a conflict.
The French market operates a Good-Better-Best architecture built on data tiers, not voice or SMS differentiation. Entry plans start at €2–€3, mid-tier clusters between €17 and €30, and premium tiers run to €85 per month.
Orange France publishes the widest visible tier spread. Its entry-level Forfait 2h 100Mo is listed at €2 per month but is exclusively available to existing Orange internet customers. BonForfait's July 2026 listing of Orange tiers shows prices ranging from €2.99 for 100 MB through €9.99 (Série Spéciale SaferPhone), €17.99, €20.99 (Série Spéciale), €24.99 (Forfait Voyage 5G+), €29.99 (80 GB), €37.99 (200 GB) and €67.99 (300 GB). At the top of the Orange range, the Forfait 500Go 5G+ is listed at €84.99 per month on a 24-month commitment. [Orange] [BonForfait]
The architecture of Orange's 200 GB 5G plan illustrates the stepped pricing model in use across the market: €37.99 per month for the first 12 months, rising to €47.99 thereafter, with a 24-month commitment. The Série Spéciale 130Go 5G plan offers the reverse logic — a €4 discount from list price (€24.99 down to €20.99) for new subscribers, with no commitment required. Orange's Guide-des-forfaits listing confirms the 120 Go 5G variant at €20.99 per month, with unlimited calls and SMS and a one-off SIM fee of €10. Five-G access itself carries no additional monthly charge — it is included in the relevant plans at no surcharge. [Orange] [Guide-des-forfaits.fr] [Selectra]
Data overage treatment is a structural feature of the architecture: Orange does not charge per-gigabyte overage beyond the included allowance but instead throttles speed. This means the data allowance functions as a full-speed threshold rather than a hard cap, softening the overage risk for consumers and removing a deterrent to higher-tier uptake. Multi-SIM is available at no cost on Orange's 140 GB, 200 GB, 300 GB and 500 GB 5G plans, and at €5 per month on other compatible plans. [Orange]
Bouygues Telecom's 5G tier with 250 GB of data allocates the full allowance across metropolitan France, Europe, DOM and Switzerland, with 40 GB available from other international destinations. This geographic data split is a feature that Orange's standard presentation does not highlight in the same way — a subtle architectural differentiation at the margin. Free Mobile's architecture is starker: the €2 base plan is a genuine entry product, while the Forfait Free 5G+ at €19.99 for 350 GB represents an extreme value position that compresses the mid-market. No commitment on the flagship plan removes the lock-in that Orange and Bouygues rely on to support their post-promotional pricing steps. [Bouygues Telecom]
Bouygues Telecom's full plan tier structure was not retrievable at the level of detail available for Orange. SFR's current architecture (beyond October 2024 price points) was not available in the corpus.
Academic estimates show that serving a large-data subscriber costs roughly four times more than serving a small-data subscriber. Base-station costs differ materially across the four operators, with Bouygues Telecom at €201,733 and SFR at €140,556 per base station per unit of bandwidth.
A Toulouse School of Economics study provides the most granular cost decomposition available for the French mobile market. Per-user costs rise sharply with data tier: small-data plans (below 1,000 MB) cost an estimated €4.95 per user per month to serve; medium-data plans (1,000–5,000 MB) cost €10.33; and large-data plans (5,000 MB and above) cost €20.53. The implication is that the economics of the market's fastest-growing tier — high-gigabyte 5G plans — generate costs that run well above the price floor set by Free Mobile at €19.99 for 350 GB. [Toulouse School of Economics]
Base-station costs per unit of bandwidth differ across operators in a pattern that does not align neatly with market share. Orange carries a per-base-station cost of €182,197; SFR the lowest at €140,556; Free Mobile €142,792; and Bouygues Telecom the highest at €201,733. Bouygues Telecom's higher network cost base relative to SFR and Free Mobile creates a structural cost disadvantage that its pricing must either recover through higher prices or absorb through thinner margins. [Toulouse School of Economics]
Orange's reported EBITDAaL margin for its mobile segment stands at 7.0%. This is a narrow margin for a market leader and reflects the structural reality of the French market: intense price competition, high network investment, and a regulatory environment that has kept wholesale prices anchored. The hedonic regression on Orange's tariff database from 2011 to 2014 found that adding a subsidised handset to a plan added an average of €11.8 to the monthly tariff price. As handset subsidies have largely exited the market, this revenue stream has been stripped out without a corresponding reduction in consumer acquisition costs — shifting the burden to lower upfront commissions and higher churn management spend. [Orange] [Econstor]
The relationship between per-user costs and plan prices has deteriorated at the value end of the market. At €4.95 per-user cost for sub-1GB plans, the €2 per month plans offered by Orange (internet customers only) and Free Mobile are structurally loss-making or marginal — they function as acquisition and retention hooks rather than standalone revenue contributors. At the large-data tier, the €20.53 estimated per-user cost against Free Mobile's €19.99 retail price implies zero margin before any network or overhead allocation, suggesting that Free Mobile's flagship plan price reflects strategic market positioning rather than cost-plus economics.
TSE cost estimates are from an academic working paper and are undated in their underlying observation period; they should be treated as directional structural estimates rather than current audited figures. Orange's EBITDAaL margin figure lacks a specific reporting period in the retrieved corpus.
Arcep's observatory data shows the average price of mobile postpaid plans fell from €15.4 to €14.6 excluding VAT between early 2025 and early 2026 — a 5% decline in 12 months driven by mid-range repricing, not headline promotions.
Arcep's observatory of electronic communications markets tracks the average monthly price of mobile postpaid forfait offers excluding VAT. The figure moved from €15.4 in 2025 to €14.6 in 2026 — a 5.0% decline in one year. This is a market-level price realisation figure, not a catalogue headline, making it the most reliable measure of what subscribers actually pay on average. The direction reinforces the broader finding that pricing pressure in the mid-range is real and sustained. [ARCEP]
Operator-level discount mechanisms add further distance between list and transaction price. Orange's Série Spéciale 130Go 5G carries a €4 per month reduction from its €24.99 standard tariff for new subscribers. Bouygues Telecom grants a €7 per month reduction for customers who hold a Bouygues mobile plan of 20 GB or more, bringing the affected plan to €27.99 per month. These loyalty or cross-sell discounts are not always visible in catalogue price comparisons and compound the divergence between published and effective pricing. [Orange] [Bouygues Telecom]
The public-sector market reveals a further structural layer. The French Ministry of Economy and Finance's procurement guidance distinguishes forfait pricing — a lump sum for a predefined communications volume regardless of actual use — from unit-based pricing where cost is proportional to consumption. The guidance explicitly warns public buyers not to conflate the commercial forfait with the legal concept of 'prix forfaitaire' in procurement law. Public-sector tender structures, such as the Finistère bordereau requiring a single quoted price for 30 mobile lines over 24 months at an unlimited rate, represent a negotiated transaction price that typically sits below any published retail tariff. [Ministère de l'Économie et des Finances (France)] [AMF 29]
Historical discount mechanics from the business market include France Télécom's Bonus Temps loyalty programme, which granted 5% additional free call minutes after 6–12 months of subscription, 10% after 12–18 months, and 15% after at least 18 months — alongside a subscription price reduction of 0.9% on average (ranging from 0.6% to 1.2%) to reflect lower call termination tariffs. These mechanisms predate the current four-operator structure but establish the template: operators have always used a combination of price adjustments and volume bonuses to manage the gap between list and effective price, particularly in high-volume or loyal-customer segments. [ARCEP]
The Arcep observatory average price series (DI-7) excludes VAT and excludes value-added services and directory enquiries. It is the most methodologically consistent time-series available for tracking realised forfait prices.
Since 2023, French mobile operators have used two parallel mechanisms: new catalogue plans with lower prices and smaller data allowances for acquisition, and quiet price increases on existing subscribers justified by service enhancements. Both moves are happening simultaneously.
The most significant structural pricing event of the recent period is the 16.7% decline in catalogue prices since 2023, driven by operators introducing smaller-data plans at lower price points. Arcep attributes 2025's 3.5% mobile revenue decline explicitly to price reductions that occurred in 2023 and 2024, with the full-year revenue effect flowing through in 2025. The average monthly price of postpaid forfait plans fell from €15.4 to €14.6 excluding VAT between 2025 and 2026. [Arcep] [ARCEP]
On the subscriber-retention side, Bouygues Telecom activated an automatic option — Norton 360 antivirus — on certain B&You and Bbox mobile plans from 17 April 2024, generating a €3 per month price increase without prior subscriber consent. The operator framed this as a new advantage protecting up to five devices against online threats. Arcep and DGCCRF rules permit operators to raise plan prices when the enhancement concerns telecom services such as more data or higher speeds, but the legality of adding a non-telecom service as the justification for a price rise was contested. This practice of embedding paid options into existing plans has intensified across the operator group. [Economiematin.fr] [Univers Freebox]
Free Mobile has made two discrete upward price adjustments in the period covered by the corpus. In January 2026, the Booster 5 GB option for the €2 plan rose from €3.99 to €4.99 per month — a 25% increase — applicable to new subscribers and existing €2 customers seeking to add the option; customers already subscribed to the Booster retained their previous price. In February 2026, Free raised the promotional price of its Série Free 110 GB 5G plan from €8.99 to €9.99 per month for new subscribers, while keeping the included services unchanged and maintaining the post-promotion migration to the Forfait Free 5G+ at €19.99 per month. Free Mobile's Booster option for the €2 plan is also offered at €0 per month for a 1 GB add-on with unlimited calls, and at €5.99 per month for a fuller bundle. [Les Numériques] [Univers Freebox] [Echosdunet]
The net effect of these concurrent moves is described precisely by Arcep: 'the decrease in the price of catalogue offers and the increase of some customers' plans has meant a virtually unchanged average monthly mobile phone bill.' The residential customer average stabilised at €16.1 excluding VAT in 2024, while the enterprise average continued to fall at −2.5% per year to €14.5 per month in 2024. The divergence between residential and enterprise pricing trajectories reflects the greater negotiating leverage and price sensitivity of business customers, and the willingness of operators to defend residential margins by quietly raising prices on churning-resistant subscribers. [Arcep] [ARCEP]
The Bouygues Norton 360 price increase (PM-1) was reported by Economiematin in April 2026 describing an April 2024 event. No formal regulatory finding on its legality was retrieved from the corpus.
Arcep's data confirms a market in structural deflation: catalogue prices down 16.7% since 2023, revenue down 3.5% in 2025, and average revenue per SIM falling to €14.3 per month. The only mechanism offsetting this is operator-side price raises on retained customers, and that lever is narrowing.
The revenue direction is unambiguous. Mobile service revenue in France fell 3.5% in 2025 — the first year of decline after six consecutive years of growth — and the average monthly revenue per SIM card dropped to €14.3 excluding VAT, down €0.60 year-on-year. Arcep's Telconomics 2025 presentation frames this explicitly: catalogue price declines since 2023, driven by smaller-data plans at lower prices, have not been fully offset by subscriber-level increases, producing a net downward revenue effect. [Arcep]
Operators continue introducing lower-priced plans with smaller data allowances, but selective plan price increases for existing customers — as already observed (PO-9) — offset catalogue deflation, stabilising the average monthly bill near its recent level. Wholesale price clarity through 2028 (PO-6) reduces uncertainty and supports orderly market behaviour.
Average monthly revenue per SIM remains under pressure around €14.3 excl. VAT (PO-2), with mobile services revenue continuing to contract after the 3.5% YoY fall that ended six consecutive years of growth (PO-3). Mobile plan prices fell 2% between December 2024 and December 2025 (PO-1), and the revenue decline that began in early 2025 is linked to price reductions made in 2024 (PO-7), suggesting the drag persists into the near term.
Competitive dynamics intensify beyond the current trajectory, pushing catalogue prices well past the 16.7% cumulative decline already recorded since 2023 (PO-4). The bill-stabilising effect of selective customer repricing (PO-9) fails to materialise at scale, and mobile services revenue falls materially faster than the 3.5% YoY already reported (PO-3), with the global ARPU compression trend across premium and budget segments amplifying local pressures (PO-8).
The price movement between December 2024 and December 2025 shows a 2% decline in the aggregate mobile offer price index, concentrated in intermediate-range plans — typically 100 GB tier offers. This is not random competitive pressure but a structural repricing: as data costs have fallen and Free Mobile's value positioning anchors consumer expectations, mid-tier plans have had to offer more gigabytes for less money to maintain subscriber share. The wholesale regulated pricing framework provides some floor: Arcep has confirmed stability of cost-based pricing in Zone A from 2024 through 2028, giving operators some visibility on input costs. [ARCEP] [Arcep]
Global telecom trends provide a directional context, though France's specific competitive dynamics are more severe than most markets. Simon-Kucher's 2026 global telecom pricing study finds that premium segment mobile ARPU has declined at a 2.6% compound annual rate since 2024, budget segment ARPU fell 2.3%, and mid-market ARPU declined 0.5%. France's market shows steeper ARPU compression than these global averages, reflecting the structural impact of a four-operator field where one operator (Free Mobile) has consistently priced to disrupt rather than to maximise margin. [Simon-Kucher]
The forward pressure on pricing is concentrated in the mid-range. The €13.37 average price for a 100 GB plan in April 2025 — down from €15.08 a year earlier — represents the active competitive battleground. Operators that rely on 24-month commitment structures to recover post-promotional price steps face the risk that consumers increasingly prefer the flexibility of no-commitment plans, for which they are willing to pay €1.30 more per month — but only up to a point. The scenario in which average bills decline materially from the current €14.90–€16.10 pre-tax anchor requires either Free Mobile to reprice upward (not signalled) or consolidation of the four operators into three (not currently underway per the retrieved corpus). The scenario in which bills rise requires operators to credibly justify a value enhancement on telecom terms, which DGCCRF rules constrain. [The Connexion] [Elsevier] [Univers Freebox]
Simon-Kucher data (PO-8) is global and not France-specific; it is used for directional context only. Arcep's price index is published annually as monthly data, meaning the most granular recent series available covers through early 2026.
Analyst view The evidence points to a market where price competition has outrun the capacity of the revenue base to absorb it. [Arcep] data shows that catalogue prices fell 16.7% since 2023 while average bills moved fractionally — the gap was bridged by operators quietly raising prices on retained subscribers rather than by demand recovery. The risk embedded in this pattern is that the two mechanisms cannot stay in equilibrium indefinitely: subscriber-level price increases face regulatory and churn constraints, and catalogue-level deflation continues as operators compete on gigabyte value. The condition that would change this picture is consolidation reducing the operator count from four to three, which would remove the competitive pressure that Free Mobile introduced in 2012 and has never fully dissipated.
This report maps the pricing landscape for consumer mobile wireless plans in France, covering the four main operators — Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free Mobile — across plan architecture, value metrics, willingness to pay, cost structure, discount reality, recent pricing moves and the forward outlook.
It is written for pricing strategists, founders and investment analysts who need a precise, sourced picture of what the French mobile market charges and why, sufficient to set or defend a specific price point.
Pricing facts, regulatory filings, operator tariff documents, academic cost studies and Arcep observatory data were retrieved, verified against primary and secondary sources, and synthesised into this report.
Most operator pricing data reflects 2026 tariff publications; Arcep market data covers 2024–2026; academic cost estimates are undated but drawn from peer-reviewed research. No data on pricing power concentration or regulatory pricing constraints was retrievable at the time of research.
Figures in this report appear in multiple currencies. Currency equivalents are presented as reported by the cited sources; conversion rates are those applied by the original sources and may reflect different reference dates.
Research conducted 31 Aug 2026. All statistics carry inline citation markers.
This report is produced for informational purposes only. It does not constitute financial, legal, or investment advice. All data is sourced from publicly available information as at the date of research. Renatus Ventures makes no representations as to the completeness or accuracy of third-party data.
Average monthly mobile spend in France — Arcep (primary regulatory data): €14.9 excl. VAT per SIM per month in 2024 vs BonForfait citing Ariase observatory: €17.88 per month in Q4 2025. The figures are not directly comparable: Arcep's measure covers all SIMs including prepaid and low-usage lines, excludes VAT, and covers full-year 2024; the BonForfait/Ariase figure is Q4 2025, likely includes VAT, and tracks a different subscriber population. Both figures are reported with their basis stated. The Arcep residential forfait figure of €16.1 excl. VAT for 2024 is the most methodologically consistent comparator.
Average monthly subscription price decline — Ariase (via The Connexion, July 2024): average subscription dropped 24.4% in one year to €12.93/month vs Arcep observatory (primary, 2024): residential forfait average stable at €16.1 excl. VAT. The Ariase figure reflects a moment of acute catalogue repricing concentrated in a specific period and likely tracks new-subscriber or promotional prices rather than the full subscriber base. The Arcep figure covers all residential forfait holders and is used as the primary anchor. The Ariase figure is retained as evidence of how sharply promotional prices moved.
Pricing Power and Concentration: no citable facts were retrieved for this topic. Market share data and concentration metrics for the French mobile market were not available in the corpus.
Regulatory Pricing Constraints: no citable facts were retrieved for this topic. Specific retail price regulation, number portability rules and consumer protection pricing obligations were not covered in the retrieved corpus.
SFR current pricing architecture: the most recent SFR tariff document retrieved is dated 22 October 2024. SFR's 2025–2026 plan structure and current price points are not confirmed.
Bouygues Telecom full plan tier structure: only partial Bouygues pricing data was retrieved; the complete tier ladder and current promotional pricing beyond the documents cited are not confirmed.
Orange EBITDAaL margin reporting period: the 7.0% margin figure is sourced from Orange's published results but the specific reporting period (year, half-year or quarter) was not confirmed in the corpus.
TSE cost study date: the Toulouse School of Economics per-user and per-base-station cost estimates lack a stated observation period; they are directional structural estimates and may not reflect current network economics.
Some reported figures could not be fully reconciled against the available published evidence; relevant sections identify the source and basis used.
43% above SFR's €140,556 (in “Cover (intelligence_brief) › body”) could not be verified against the retrieval corpus; the citation is retained but could not be confirmed from the retrieved sources.
