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Bouygues Telecom company history timeline

1994

Bouygues in May 1994 entered into a strategic alliance with French power utility EDF to develop joint operations internationally in the area of public utilities management.

1995

In 1995 Bouygues posted a net loss of US$593 million resulting from writeoffs taken for losses in its property business and for start-up costs associated with Bouygues Telecom and the development of a paging service called Kobby.

1996

A mobile service was subsequently launched by Bouygues Telecom on May 29, 1996.

1997

But it appeared that Bouygues had no intention to do so, and in fact announced in December 1997 that it had formed a joint venture called 9 Telecom with Telecom Italia and Veba Telecom of Germany to develop a fixed-line telephone service in France.

In 1997 Bouygues purchased another French utilities company, Cise, and merged it with Saur to create the third largest public utilities management group in France.

Revenues reached US$15.34 billion by 1997, more than double the level of ten years earlier.

2001

By 2001, Bouygues Telecom's market share reached approximately 17%. In that same year, Bouygues Telecom negotiated with NTT DoCoMo regarding a potential partnership and the right to offer the latter's i-mode mobile internet service, which ultimately did not materialise.

2005

In March 2005, the first DVB-H trials in France were carried out by Bouygues Telecom in cooperation with Orange and TPS. Bouygues Telecom subsequently launched EDGE on its mobile network in May 2005.

2009

On 25 May 2009, Bouygues Telecom launched France's first converged quadruple play offer called "ideo", using a combined Internet modem and set-top box called Bbox.

2010

On 22 October 2010, the Bbox offer was expanded to include fibre in cooperation with Numericable.

2011

On 18 July 2011, Bouygues Telecom launched its lower-cost flanker brand called B&YOU, offering postpaid plans online without fixed contracts.

2016

In January 2016 Bouygues Telecom were subject to negotiations regarding an acquisition from mobile carrier Orange, which did not progress.

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Founded
1994
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Headquarters
San Jose, CA
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Founders
Frederic Rombaut,Martin Bouygues
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