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customers and professionals a comprehensive
range of broadband data
contracts and universal text messaging.
mobile talk plans offering unlimited
calls to all fixed and mobile phones
in France after the third minute, from
8.00 p.m. until midnight;
investment over the last few years
has remained below €600 million.
Bouygues Telecom reimbursed the
outstanding amount of its shareholder
loan, €621 million, in the first half of
2005. To take advantage of low interest
rates and obtain maximum flexibility,
Bouygues Telecom concluded
bilateral loan agreements with ten
banks for a total of €725 million,
with maturities of two, three and five
years. At the same time the ceiling of
the syndicated loan concluded in April
2004 was steadily reduced and the
facility itself was cancelled in advance
in December 2005. Long-term debt
amounted to €441 million at end-2005,
compared with €1,197 million a year
earlier. The debt-to-equity ratio at 31
December 2005 was 0.21.
Bouygues telecom
products and services
Corporate
i-mode in the broadband era
Bouygues Telecom opened its Edge
network in May, offering corporate
The services can be accessed from
a laptop equipped with a high-speed
digital card, from a digital personal
assistant or from a smart phone.
General Public
Bouygues Telecom expanded its range
of unlimited services in order to
increase voice usage on mobiles:
• special Expression contracts offering
unlimited calls to fixed phones
anywhere in France after 6.00 p.m.
and at weekends;
• special Emotion contracts, the first
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• at Christmas, relaunch of special
Expression contracts with a 90-minute
initial offer and launch of a
new, unlimited Nomad recharge card,
offering 40 minutes of airtime and
unlimited calls to all fixed phones
and Bouygues Telecom mobiles from
8.00 p.m. until midnight.
In October,
Bouygues
T e l e c o m
b r o u g h t
broadband within the reach of the
general public with an innovative
range of new i-mode services.
Covering 90% of the population, they
include unlimited free e-mails, instant
messaging with MSN Messenger, television
with TPS, music downloads and
an enhanced i-mode portal.
The first unlimited broadband i-mode
contract was launched, priced at €9.90
per month and two new Edge i-mode
handsets from NEC and Samsung were
proposed.
Universal Mobile
Universal Mobile has been a great success
among young people, with over
360,000 customers at end-2005. A
prepaid card has enhanced the range
since October.
Success of TV over broadband i-mode
Roll-out of 3G and pilot
schemes
Bouygues Telecom has taken various
steps since 2003 to prepare its network
for the arrival of third generation
technology. Half its sites in Paris
and the Paris region were ready for
HSDPA equipment by the end of 2005.
Since November 2005, Bouygues
Telecom has been conducting tests
of the HSDPA technology on an
experimental network. The results of
practical trials have confirmed the
significant advance that HSDPA represents
in relation to first-generation
UMTS (R99).
In 2006, Bouygues Telecom will continue
to prepare base stations for
HSDPA electronic equipment (core
network and radio), for which purchasing
agreements will be concluded
in the first half of the year.
Bouygues Telecom will conduct two
trials in the first half of 2006: mobile
TV (DVB-H) and a contactless application.
Mobile TV is being tested with 200
i-mode customers and five transmitters
in Paris. The customers are
offered a bouquet of ten regular
channels, a special-event channel and
related services.
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