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Green remained in the game this Friday. At the close, the CAC 40 gained 0.63% to 3810.22 points and has recrossed the threshold of 3800 points, dropped Tuesday. For the week, the benchmark index of the Paris Bourse has still lost 3% (-3.02% exactly).

Elsewhere in Europe, the same movement today: the DAX index of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange took 0.11% to 6664.40 points, while the London Stock Exchange rose by 0.39% to 5718.13 points. Over the last five sessions, they gave respectively 4.32% and 1.88%.

This general relief at the weekend followed the decision of G7 finance ministers to intervene to halt the yen. They announced their decision to conduct a joint intervention on foreign exchange markets in response to the steep appreciation of the yen in recent days.The yen hit on Wednesday its highest level since the Second World War!

Hand disorders in the Arab world, Libya announced a cease-fire while the UN was prepared to launch a military intervention. The Libyan withdrawal had a calming effect on oil pressure. The black gold is still beyond 100 dollars a barrel in New York.

No increase in Fukushima

Finally, operators learn with relief that the Japanese nuclear situation has not deteriorated. As pointed out by the IAEA, the situation remains worrisome in the Fukushima plant, but it has not worsened since Wednesday.

On the currency markets, the euro continues to gain momentum against the dollar: the currency was trading at about 17.30 1.4164 (1.05%).

Side indicators, the day was relatively calm.The producer prices rose 0.7% in February in Germany, a figure slightly higher than expected which feeds the fears of accelerating inflation in the first euro zone economy. According to figures released Friday by the Federal Office of Statistics, the annual increase stood at 6.4% after 5.7% in January.

Notice also that the euro area recorded a trade deficit in January increased over the same month a year ago and higher than expected, Eurostat said Friday.The trade balance for the euro area showed a deficit unadjusted 14.8 billion euros in January, following a deficit of 0.5 billion euros in December 2010 and a deficit of 9.7 billion euros January 2010.

Lafarge viewfinder S & P

Lafarge: + 0.85% to 41.41 euros

The rating agency S & P lowered its rating on the cement to "BB + / B 'with stable outlook.

NicOx: + 8.01% to 2.35 euros

NicOx signed a license agreement with Ferrer for Spain naproxcinod (cons osteoarthritis drug), which remains subject to approval in Europe of treatment. To date, naproxcinod has been authorized in any market.After watching this Retoque treatment by U.S. health authorities (FDA) last summer, NicOx announced its intention to seek licensing agreements in Europe and the world

EADS: + 0.92% to 19.24 euros

Airbus was the first indicted Thursday for manslaughter in connection with the investigation into the crash of Flight 447, Rio Paris, which had been 228 casualties on 1 June 2009. In addition, the helicopter manufacturer Eurocopter has announced yesterday the construction of a new plant in Mexico to an investment of $ 550 million (390 million).

Societe Generale: + 2.18% to 46.43 euros, Crédit Agricole: -0.53% to 11.22 euros, BNP Paribas 0.48% to 52 euros

Banks react little to assumptions for new tests of resistance in European banks, unveiled by the European banking supervisor.The new criteria are nevertheless considered "more severe" than in the previous year which had been criticized for its laxity.However, contrary to what she had planned earlier this month, the European supervision of banks (EBA) has not published the list of establishments that would be subjected to these tests.

Renault: 1.52% to 38.14 euros

Thursday, after an interview with Carlos Ghosn, CEO of the automotive group, Christine Lagarde, Minister of Economy and Eric Besson, Minister of Industry, reiterated a "thorough audit" had been requested on this matter " to identify the origin of recently observed failures within the company. "

NRJ Group: 4.02% to 7.50 euros

The group reported a turnover up 4.1% to 343.6 million euros, while net income group share was increased fourfold to $ 32.3 million euros.

Sodexo: -0.60% to 48.14 euros

Its U.S. subsidiary has filed a complaint Thursday against a civil union Service Employees International Union (SEIU) which it accuses of illegal practices concerning unionization of employees.

NYSE Euronext: -2.31% to 24.92 euros

The proposed takeover of cons-Nasdaq OMX Group is facing a dispute with his partner approached, the IntercontinentalExchange, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website Thursday.

Total: -0.07% to 40.76 euros

Total Petrochemicals is putting into operation a new unit of 50,000 barrels per day refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, said a spokeswoman on Thursday.

Archos: -4.81% to 7.52 euros

The group hopes to double its sales in 2011 and return to profit by betting on the booming market of touch pads, but warned that the Japanese disaster may have affected his production, "said CEO and founder Crohas.

The relationship between employees and their business is a little "I love you I do not either." According to a survey released this morning by the firm Accenture, "more than half of employees worldwide are not satisfied with their current work situation, but they still expect to remain loyal to their employers." We do love each other anymore, but we stay together despite any lack of anything better!

"Even if they are dissatisfied, today's employees are not willing to change employers.They prefer to build their skills based on training, resources and people that can help them, "said Armelle Carminati-Rabasse, CEO Human Capital and Diversity at Accenture.

Conducted in 29 countries with 3400 employees, the study lists the main sources of job dissatisfaction: inadequate pay arrives logically at the head, after three lean years, for 47% of women surveyed and 44% of men. The lack of prospects for career development is another strong point for 33% of women and 34% of men. In France, 50% of respondents highlight "the feeling of being trapped."

Involving more staff

Men and women are they the same analysis on the reasons for job dissatisfaction? Not totally.Women are thus more likely than their male colleagues to believe that "their career is not progressing fast enough" (63% against 55%). They agree, however, the identification of barriers to career progression this is the lack of support from management tops (33% response) and the career fuzzy and poorly defined (24%).

They do not adopt either the same steps to improve their situation. "Women are less likely than men to seek wage increases (44% against 48% of women) or promotions (28% against 39%)," said Armelle Carminati-Rabasse. They are also much more reluctant than their counterparts to target a senior officer or equivalent (14% against 22% globally).

"The leaders should use the results of this study to involve more of their employees and support them in their careers.They are now pursuing new opportunities to create in-house, and companies can help, "says the investigator.

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The Department of Housing spoke of the last week, the government will tackle rising rents by taxing the owners too greedy. The subject is delicate. For the Department working on the issue for several weeks, the task is to "correct the excesses without falling into a overregulated. No straitjacket general, therefore, the Secretary of State for Housing, Benoist Appeared, having said all the evil he thought the proposal from the left to frame the evolution of all rents.

Measures in 2012

The owners of rooms are in good contrast in the crosshairs. "Some landlords ask for more than 90 euros per square meter, or 900 euros for a maid's room of 10 square meters equipped with only a water point. "It's totally unfair," he said Thursday Benoist Found in a telephone interview with AFP.To end this situation, it means taxing rents above 40 euros per square meter for areas less than or equal to 13 square meters.

In Paris, the average rental price per square meter is estimated at 23 euros. For large areas – 100 m2 – the average price is around 17 euros per square meter, and he explodes for microhousings, reaching 40 euros on average. "40 euros, it still remains high, but we must find a balance, to prevent the owners meet the maid's rooms into an apartment," argued the Secretary of State freecreditscore.In Paris, there is a strong demand for small housing type maid's room, including from students and people with low incomes, and further more good bedrooms apartment rental stock reduces available.

The provision should be included in the next budget law, the one for 2012.

Price Transparency

In another interview with the newspaper Liberation, and intervention on France 2, Benoist Appeared also said the government would consider sanctions for not complying rented by the Loi Carrez. This law requires the lessor to meter housing. For now the text does, however, no penalty."We will fix it," says the minister who wants a student who rented a 10 square meters to claim a rent reduction if it finds the Carrez surface is only 9 square meters.

Moreover, to improve price transparency in the rental market, the Minister announced the forthcoming launch of an online website on rents "neighborhood by neighborhood" in Ile-de-France, to give "elements negotiations "with people seeking shelter against a greedy owner.

(With AFP)

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Paris Has it been too sure of his strength? There is just one more year, the possibility of relocation was seen as a joke by the City Council. At the point of not meeting the requirements of the French Tennis Federation, eager to expand the site of Roland Garros in order to accommodate the public, partners and media in better conditions, and to demand a fee from astronomical 2016 (the current lease expires in 2015). "There is a Roland Garros. There is no other. It will be more if it leaves Roland Garros Paris. The love story between Roland Garros and tennis is necessarily the Porte d'Auteuil, on the current site (…) I'm really a city tour to the suburbs but frankly what belongs to Paris is Paris.Roland Garros as the Eiffel Tower is part of Paris, has just recently told Jean Vuillermoz, Deputy Mayor of Paris, in charge of sport in a whiff of superiority. Faced with this situation, the TFF has decided to react by putting Paris in competition.

A hotly contested competition
A bluff? Initially judged as such, the call for entries is taken very seriously. Three suburban sites are then selected to host Roland Garros: Versailles, Marne-la-Vallée and Gonesse. The quality of records that are pushing the proposed FFT to seriously consider a move. "Attitudes have indeed changed," admitted the director Roland Garros Gilbert Ysern, whom we asked last November.Under pressure, the Mayor of Paris reacts through Bertrand Delanoe, who tabled a "vow on the development of the Tournament of Roland Garros in Paris" fulfilling all the wishes of the original Federation. Extending the area of 60% (5 hectares), covering the Central, the construction of a new 5,000-seat stadium, a new concession for a period of 99 years and a charge down the figure indexed business.

An eminently strategic
By choosing to stay in Paris, the FFT would be the choice of conservatism. A choice of heart more than reason? So says Hervé Dupont, executive director of the Plaine de France, holder of record of Gonesse."Either the Federation made the strategic choice to remain in Paris for convenience, for fear of change, because it costs him a little cheaper … Either it moves and in this case we believe we have the best project." Leaving the historic site Auteuil would especially at Roland Garros to catch up and even take the lead, on the other Grand Slam tournaments (Wimbledon, U.S. Open and Australian Open) in terms of area (over 30 hectares) no checking account payday advance. Pragmatic, Guy Forget is rather favorable to offshoring.

An opinion that disagrees obviously not John Vuillermoz: "Is that what is important is the space, the number of acres? Does the importance of this tournament is not elsewhere? The goal is to get better. There will be an opening to a new space, a new short 5,000 seats. A lawn will replace the short No. 1, which is not beautiful.This will allow spectators to picnic before a large screen that will broadcast all the matches. This is what will stay at Roland Garros in its box, while remaining accessible to the greatest number. This is not just about square meters. "

Dissension
Unlike Gonesse and Marne-la-Vallee, where the political will to welcome Roland Garros is unanimous, the case of Paris, like that of Versailles, is facing some dissension. "We are a democracy, everyone can express themselves. You say there is no opposition would not be true.Now, democracy is majority and in this context, the Paris council has spoken: 12 councilors voted against and 141 voted for! After the Greens, who voted against the Olympic Games in Paris, which are against the top-level sport in Paris and that the residents of the Porte d'Auteuil want to stay together and not to involve the mass is their problem … But the great mass of the Parisians is favorable. All the polls show, "says Jean Vuillermoz, reminding us that Paris can count on support from the weight, partners and sponsors.

Sponsor support historical
BNP Paribas, whose brand is associated with at Roland Garros for 37 years, is actually very clear about this: "We support the continuation of the tournament in the capital. We believe that much of the prestige is that it is in central Paris.Whatever the qualities of offshoring projects, they would not have the same influence. "Same story from Alain Afflelou:" Roland Garros is a prestigious tournament that counts a lot in terms of public relations device. Currently, it is easy to reach, it will be more complicated than 35 km … "Favorite, File Paris nonetheless threatened. Not sure he collects 66% of votes of the 195 voters of the Federation for its victory on Sunday. He could well find themselves with ballot Versailles (the most dangerous rival?). The two finalists then the tie would be within three months, an absolute majority, at a new General Assembly …

The Paris plan:

In France, household consumption is relatively good. But consumers have changed. The crisis has left its mark and changed behaviors. "They are more suspicious than ever" vis-à-vis prices, brands, advertising and signs, says a study by TNS Sofres for the Internet of 8700 Observatory Cetelem. Now, consumers no longer take for granted what they say sellers. They learn before you buy. Nearly 60% of them say look "very carefully" prices. And half of respondents (49% in France) report systematically seek promotions, are the most scrupulous Portuguese (66%), Slovaks (66%) and Romanians (64%).

Lack of competence

The European online shoppers are becoming more and more time for reflection.Before making a major purchase (over 160 euros), 90% of them "leading the investigation" on the Internet. Upon arrival, French polled almost one in two (48%) said it happens more than a month between when he started to learn and when he decides instant payday loan. For information, younger (61% of those under 30 years, against 40% of those over 50 years), plébiscitent blogs and other social networks (Web 2.0), considered more reliable than the comments left on some commercial sites .

More demanding and very well informed consumers "no longer grant an innocent belief in the marks and arguments vendors," said Flavien Neuvy, head of the Observatory Cetelem. The rise of the Internet has challenged the traditional role of the seller.The latter has lost its "superb" in the eyes of Europeans, who generally find it does not seem "not competent enough, passionate enough and is not considered to be the right person to negotiate the price." Only 38% of those surveyed also believe that the vendor has advised that at their last major purchase was familiar with his field … which is unlikely. Vendors must reinvent itself.

After doubling with Apple in the smartphone operating system Android, Google Will it all in the tablets? This seems to be the unstated objective of the leader in Internet search. His version of Android 3.0, Honeycomb her first name, bills itself as "the first operating system designed for touch pads". Unlike competing systems that were designed for smartphones and declined for the tablets.

Among the strengths highlighted by the Google executives, on Wednesday, is the storage of personal data on the cloud, the cloud computing. If the user loses his phone, he will find his tablet … despite all his personal data. An argument that reminds one of the strengths of the BlackBerry, which also enters the segment from the shelves. And like its Canadian competitor, Android lets you open several applications at once.Plus a button that makes the trips.

Google also takes on video conferencing. His shelves are equipped with front and rear cameras. But moving objects par excellence, they also have a stabilizer, which avoids having an effect of camera shake during a conversation.

Create an ecosystem

Google is also focusing on the convergence of smart phones, tablets and also Google TV, Android, to facilitate the adaptation of existing applications from one environment to another. This represents a potential saving and financial gain for developers totally free credit score. User side, it allows access from any device on an Android downloaded application on Android Market and receive an indexing system very intuitive.Honeycomb may also be used as an eBook, to "turn the pages so sweet and nice," according to Google, but with a screen rendering that is not unlike that seen on iPad.

Google is also focusing on the accessibility-on-3 for Android attract content providers and application developers. No question for the search engine to keep pace with Apple in the field of available applications. However, Disney announced Wednesday the arrival of four applications on Android.

As in telephony, Google will leverage the power of manufacturers. Motorola was the first to unveil Xoom, its shelf under Honeycomb, creating the event at CES, the electronics show in Las Vegas in early January. LG followed with his G-Slate to be launched in the U.S. in the spring. And in France in late March, early April.Small feature of the G-Slate: it can take 3D images. It is also one of the key creeds of manufacturers chose Honeycomb: enabling the user to view content, but also to conceive.

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European shares end down on Tuesday. The CAC 40 shows a decrease of 0.34% to 4019.62 points at closing. Elsewhere in Europe, the FTSE-100 from the London Stock Exchange was down 0.44% at 5917.71 points while in Frankfurt the Dax lost 0.12% to 7059.01 points.

Investors remained on guard before the speech of Barack Obama before Congress on the state of the Union and before the start of the meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Federal Reserve (Fed).

The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. President will explain that he intends to find points of growth in renewable energy and research. Barack Obama will announce new spending in education and infrastructure, including road improvements, as the business daily. He could also announce to Congress a tax reform sought by conservatives."This speech will set the scene for the next two years," says Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "This will also be a delicate balancing act," says this former parliamentary attaché.

In the U.S., housing prices fell further in November, dropping 0.5% from October, according to the monthly S & P / Case Shiller index released Tuesday.

Consumer confidence has improved significantly in January, according to an index released Tuesday by the Conference Board, which jumped to 60.6 against 53.3 the previous month.

In France:

– Starts of new homes rose 2.4% in December and 6.9% over the last three months of 2010, to 3.5% to rise throughout the year, 346,018 , according to figures released Tuesday by the Department of Ecology and Sustainable Development.Not since July 2009 to observe a 12-month total so high, the ministry said. Meanwhile, the number of building permits granted for dwellings fell 0.7% in December and 1.9% over the period October to December compared with the previous three months.

– Expenditure on French household consumption of manufactured goods rose 1% on average in 2010, a year that ended on a 0.6% increase in December, driven by the end of the scrapping in automotive, INSEE said on Tuesday.

The IMF raised its forecast for global growth

The International Monetary Fund raised its forecast Tuesday for global growth in 2011. The institution said it was counting on 4.4% growth for the year, against 4.2% forecast in October. The forecast has been raised especially for the United States, 3% against 2.3% previously.The IMF explained by Washington's decision to extend for two years of tax cuts decided in 2001 and 2003, which would "add a half point of growth" in 2011.

For the euro area, the forecast was left unchanged at 1.5%, as well as for France to 1.6% against 2.2% in Germany (2% previously). For emerging and developing its forecasts remain broadly stable, with 9.6% growth in China, India 8.4% or 4.5% in Brazil.

Note that the side of the currency, the euro started to fall on Tuesday after almost touched the threshold of $ 1.37 on a wave of optimism in the euro zone and facing a dollar weakened by a resurgence of anxiety on the eve of the monetary policy decision from the U guaranteed payday loans.S. Federal Reserve (Fed).Vers11H00 in Paris, the euro bought 1.3581 dollars against 1.3635 dollars late Monday.

To follow: Renault, Lagardère and France Telecom

Renault: + 2.43% to 48.47 euros

Carlos Ghosn, CEO of the automaker, has again said Monday that crews were also shocked Nissan as their counterparts from Renault by the discovery of the spy case that hits the mark in diamond.

Interparfums: + 5.56% to 25.64 euros

The manufacturer of fragrances, which reported Tuesday an annual turnover exceeding its own expectations, has revised upward its forecast for 2011 in favor of launching a new fragrance Burberry and integration of Boucheron lines.

Havas: + 1.06% to 3.80 euros

ING has raised its recommendation on Tuesday Havas from "hold" from "buy" on the title, while lowering procurement to "neutral" opinion on the sector of advertising agencies in Europe.

Lagardère: -1.61% to 34.84 euros

The group identified a new time on Tuesday its forecast for operating profit in 2010 for its media business, which should save a contraction of less than 5%, so far it expects a decline ranging from 5% to 10%.

France Telecom: + 0.43% to 16.33 euros

Orange announced Tuesday that it is in exclusive talks with the French platform on the internet Dailymotion videos to acquire 49% of its capital to 58.8 million euros, with an option for up to 100% from 2013.

LVMH: +2.42% to 116.50 euros Hermes: + 1.21% to 146.20 euros

The CEO of luxury goods group Bernard Arnault, has enjoyed a fashion show for Dior (a subsidiary of the group) to reaffirm that the rise in the capital of Hermes was peaceful, also ensuring that it does not take control the famous saddler.

Alcatel-Lucent: + 2.85% to 2.45 euros

The group sees a clear interest from the French telecom operators for future generation mobile networks (4G), but the speed of their deployment will depend very much on the price of licenses to be auctioned by the state.

Air France-KLM: -0.77 to 13.54 euros

A group of independent experts commissioned by the airline to consider the safety of its flights after the crash of Paris-Rio, concluded that the airline had not committed any deviation from the regulations.

STMicroelectronics: -2.48% to 8.35 euros

The group released Monday a profit that exceeded expectations in the fourth quarter but noted that it anticipated a drop in sales in the first quarter, about 7% to 12% sequentially on the other.

Sanofi-Aventis: -0.69% to 50.63 euros

The pharmaceutical giant has hired a search firm to potential candidates for appointment to the Board of Directors of Genzyme, said on Monday sources familiar with the matter.

Spir Communication, Klépierre NextRadioTV SeLoger.com and publish their turnover in the fourth quarter.

Monday afternoon, Pierre Berge, Gilles Van Kote and Louis Dreyfus were presented to three shareholders: Pierre Berge, Xavier Niel and Matthew Pigasse, the result of the thirteen candidates for the hearings as director of the World. A name was consensus that Erik Izraelewicz, former managing editor of The Tribune and former editor of Echoes in the world. The three shareholders have agreed to submit it as the only candidate on the supervisory board to be held Feb. 7. Thus they avoided the psychodrama of a short list, a solution which had been rejected by the representatives of the editors fast cash. Then the name of the future director of the World must be approved by 60% of the votes of writing. This vote should take place on February 10.

Erik Izraelewicz, born in 1954 expected to attract the qualified majority.It embodies both stability and identity of the newspaper for having spent many years (1986 to 2000) and has a project to revive the newspaper.

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The trend remains fragile on Friday on the European stock exchanges. In Paris the CAC 40 has remained in limbo (-0.30% to 3964.84 points) yesterday, Thursday.But this Friday, the index is the height in early trade: 0.46% to 3983.06 points.

Factor supporting this day, the morale of French manufacturers, which continued its gradual rise in January, with a sharp jump of six points from the previous month to 108 points, the sentiment index of all the winning business it a point to 106 points, Insee said Friday.

This morning, Asian stock markets overall declined sustained change, and yesterday afternoon, Wall Street has ended in equilibrium, investors opted for caution amid speculation about new Chinese measures to prevent overheating of the second world economy .

The appointment on Friday, the monthly business survey in industry and services by INSEE. Then 10 hours, the German Ifo index will be monitored.

On the foreign exchange market, the euro is trading above $ 1.35 on Friday.The euro has gained strength this week against a background of successful bond issued by EU countries like Spain and Greece. In front, the dollar depreciated while Barack Obama has welcomed Tuesday its Chinese counterpart and called for yuan appreciation.

Sanofi-Aventis is expected to extend its offer for Genzyme

The offer expires on Genzyme Friday 21 January.

Vivendi Judgement of Paris criminal court in the trial of Jean-Marie Messier.

The three Renault executives questioned complained and defend themselves with force. The doubt settles. The CEO of Renault will speak Sunday evening.

Kaufman & Broad Group announced Thursday night have returned to profitability in 2010 and 21% had reduced its debt after a year marked by a resumption of commercial activity.

The Somfy blinds specialist has announced a turnover up 12.1% for its fiscal 2010 to 852.6 million euros. Sales have benefited from buoyant activity in Germany, Central Europe and East and France. They have offset lower sales in Northern Europe.

Damartex The apparel retailer reported Thursday evening sales up 3.8% in the first half of its fiscal year 2010-2011, to 385.3 million euros.The group, which owns the brand Damart, has not made a forecast for the coming quarters.

Schneider Electric has confirmed on Thursday the closure of its plant in St. Pryvé St. Memin (Loiret) managed by one of its subsidiaries.

Air France-KLM The company yesterday accsué its seventh session decline in a row, with a drop of more than 4% Thursday evening after closing the warning on the results of EasyJet yesterday.

Scor said Thursday it had successfully placed 400 million Swiss francs of perpetual subordinated securities.

CGG Veritas has finally announced that it issued 360 million euros in convertible bonds after exercising the over-allotment option.The group had initially planned to issue 315 million euros.

PRPA The motorway company has reported a traffic increase of 1.3% in the fourth quarter, offsetting heavy traffic traffic light vehicles affected by snowfall and shortages of gasoline early fall.

Compagnie des Alpes The leisure group said sales growth of 1.41% in the first quarter of its fiscal year 2010-2011 supported by a good attendance of its ski areas through early snowfall observed in late 2010.

Veolia Environnement Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault, the holding of the Dassault family, announced December 31, 2010 hold at 5.37% of share capital and voting rights of society in environmental services.

Cegid reported Tuesday a turnover up 0.4% for 2010 and expects a net profit increase for its entire fiscal year.

Technip announced Friday it had won a contract from refining in Bulgaria worth 70 million euros.

The VAT hike on January 1 in telecoms has triggered a fare increase in mobile Internet and most telcos. But the French are not all equal before the increases. There are those whose membership will increase and those to be spared. So those who may request termination of their free online and those who remain bound to their operator. For the occasion, Lefigaro.fr compiled the information given by the major French telecom operators.

Orange increases capped

In Orange, about 11 million subscribers are affected by rising prices. In mobile, it affects 3 million customers, a fleet of 18 million. She passed on two ranges of current packages: packages blocked M6 Mobile and Origami Star.She is one to three euros, rounded to achieve a round number, usually in favor of the customer (see pdf). Other packages earlier, including television, are also increasing. The affected customers were notified by mail, and can terminate free.

In ADSL, the nine million Orange customers are affected by changes in fees. All packages can watch television, the "Livebox", a satellite or an Internet portal, the operator calls. The increase ranges from 1.10 to 3 euros (see pdf). It is for example 2.10 for the package "triple play" basis, up from 29.90 to 32 euros.In this case, rounding is not on the client's favor, since the price should be 31.77 euros in strictly applying the VAT increase from 5.5 to 19.6% on half of the package.

SFR price points

SFR applies also rate increases in the fixed and mobile. It affects 5.2 million mobile customers in eight ranges of packages, one-third of subscribers of the operator. These increases reflect the increase in VAT to the penny, and are usually rounded to the client. However, they may reach ten euros more expensive packages, because unlike Telstra, Vodafone did not put up ceiling from 3 euros. Watch your bill.

In ADSL, these increases offset by work. The increase is 1 euro for subscribers under 20 euros, for example to offer "Internet only" Same day payday loans. And it is 2 euros for offers from more than 20 euros.The package "triple play" reference at 29.90 euros to 31.90 euros so happens, instead of 31.77 euros if SFR did not round prices.

Bouygues Telecom: no increase in mobile

Bouygues Telecom stands out from its two main competitors, as it announces no increase in the mobile. Its 8.4 million subscribers packages are spared. This gesture he described as "generous" aims to recruit new customers from its competitors.

In ADSL, where Bouygues Telecom has 645,000 customers, packages will be € 1.88 more expensive starting in February, regardless of the offer. The subscription "triple play" reference at 29.90 euros will be increased to 31.78 euros, which is a more accurate calculation for the client in Orange and SFR.The subscription "quadruple play services including Internet, television, fixed telephone and mobile, will also be affected.

Darty: the penny

As Bouygues Telecom, Darty chose to pass this increase to the penny in ADSL. We thus find the same increase of 1.88 euro for offering "triple play" at 29.90 euros.

Free: a smart option

Free is definitely the smartest of all.He leaves the price of his crime to 29.99 unchanged, but lots of television, which becomes an option, charged 1.99 euro.

Numericable: unexplained increases

The cable operator, whose bids are yet mostly untouched by the VAT hike, took advantage of this new deal to increase its rates by three euros on average from August, for no apparent reason.

Other operators

Alternative operators like Virgin Mobile or NRJ, did not apply the reduced VAT on their packages. They do not reverberate upward.

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