PARIS (Dow Jones)--France's mobile penetration rate rose to 71% in the third quarter of 2003, the French telecommunications watchdog said Monday.
The Autorite de Regulation des Telecommunications also said 626,800 new customers were added over the quarter, bringing the total number to 42.9 million.
It said multimedia services are now used by more than 8 million customers.
French cellular carriers are France Telecom SA's (FTE) Orange, Vivendi Universal SA's (V) SFR and Bouygues SA's (12050.FR) Bouygues Telecom.
Web site: http://www.art-telecom.fr
-By Benoit Faucon, Dow Jones Newswires; +33 1 40 17 17 40; benoit.faucon@dowjones.com
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