

The Bouygues Telecom’s “Solutions smartphone durable” service allows the recycling and recovery of old mobiles, the sale of refurbished mobiles and the repair of its device at a lower cost up to twice a year.Īccording to statistics provided by the company, only 1 in 3 French people consider having their smartphone repaired in case it gets broken. This discount is valid twice a year, up until for Sensation customers. The song, which marked the American musician’s debut single, is included on her debut studio album, “Songs in A Minor”, and is available for purchase on Amazon for $1.29. The soundtrack music is the 2001 single “Fallin'” by Alicia Keys. “We will never stop dropping our smartphones” the voiceover says, informing that, with “Solutions smartphone durable” all Bouygues Sensation customers get 30% off reparation costs of their smartphone across 500 Bouygues stores. Thus, when his mother calls, one day, he drops the phone down a staircase, and later on, when they become parents of twins and her dad calls one night, she drops the phone on the floor and breaks.Īt the end of the commercial, the husband drops his phone again, right after receiving it repaired, when his life partner shows him a maternity test. As the film continues, it turns out their life together is marked by falls of a smartphone, shown in slow motion. Im looking for a forfait sans engagement as I will be living here more than one year. I need to buy a new SIM card soon and am torn between Orange, SFR, Bouygues, Free, or one of the many MVNOs. While Numericable has also promised to rule out a layoffs plan for three years, its starting point is the end of the exclusivity period, or April 4, according to its own letter to Vivendi seen by Reuters.īoth bidders are keen to soothe government concerns over job cuts at a time of record unemployment in France.Įxamining the Bouygues offer will be a sensitive task for Vivendi, which must respect the exclusivity granted to Numericable and avoid communication with Bouygues, the sources said.The spot features a young couple who meet at a rooftop party and apparently fall for each other at first sight, while trying to grab a falling smartphone. Im roaming using Oranges 4G network and I get like 4/5 bars in my apartment but only 2/5 bars (unusable) in the World Food kebab shop in Place Colbert.

Although Bouygues faces a high hurdle after raising its offer for SFR, given exclusivity had already been granted to rival Numericable (NUME.PA), the construction-to-telecoms conglomerate sees a tie-up as key to saving its telecoms unit.īouygues's latest offer for SFR, which was submitted six days after Vivendi chose to start exclusive talks with Numericable, raised the cash portion of its offer by 1.85 billion euros ($2.55 billion) to 13.15 billion while cutting the stake Vivendi would hold in a combined SFR-Bouygues Telecom to 21.5 percent from 46 percent.īouygues Chairman Martin Bouygues has also sent a letter to Vivendi promising that if his company won the battle for SFR there would be no layoffs plan or voluntary-departure plan for three years following the signature of the deal agreement, according to the letter seen by Reuters.
