Vodafone extends partner market agreement with SFR

Vodafone has renewed its partner market agreement for France with SFR for another four years to 2020.

The renewed agreement builds on the “successful partnership” between the two companies in France since 2002 and will ensure SFR's corporate and consumer customers continue to benefit from “enhanced, seamless roaming services” across Vodafone's operations in 26 countries and the 56 other countries where its partners with mobile networks.

In addition, Vodafone said on Tuesday that it has signed a strategic framework agreement with Altice for the Dominican Republic. Altice customers will now be able to roam seamlessly onto Vodafone's network and Vodafone's customers in the Dominican Republic will have full roaming services on Altice's network.

Vodafone Partner Markets chief executive Stefano Gastaut said: "We are pleased to extend our long-standing relationship with SFR for another four years, enabling us to continue to bring our customers the best of Vodafone and SFR.

“I am also delighted that our partnership is now expanded to encompass Altice's operations in the Dominican Republic, which means that Vodafone is now present in 82 countries, of which 57 are partners."

At 1300 GMT, Vodafone shares were up 0.1% to 217.05p.