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businesses. Through its classical music business, UMG controls publishing rights to a list of traditional classical composers, such as Verdi, Puccini, Ravel, Debussy, and Stravinsky. The production music library business provides a catalog of original music and arrangements (through numerous libraries and niche branding) created for use in films, television and advertising, and new media industries. Artist Services and Merchandising The Artist Service Division comprises artist management and event management units. The artist management group includes companies, such as Twenty First Artists and Trinifold, and represents artists, including The Who, Elton John, Robert Plant, James Blunt, Mick Fleetwood, ZZ Top, and David Bisbal. Competition The company's competitors include EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group. SFR SFR offers phone services, such as mobile, broadband Internet, and fixed in France. SFR has 19.7 million mobile customers and 3.9 million high-speed Internet customers. SFR provides telecommunication services to its customers in metropolitan France, La Reunion and Mayotte via Societe Reunionnaise du Radiotelephone (SRR), its wholly-owned subsidiary. SFR provides mobile telephony retail services, access to mobile multimedia data services (messaging (SMS and MMS) and image and sound broadcasting) and mobile Internet access (transmission and receipt of emails and Internet navigation) through subscription (post-paid) or by phone card (pre-paid), with or without handsets; fixed telephony retail services and broadband Internet access, including ‘multiplay’ offerings that combine broadband Internet access, telephone subscription, Internet Protocol (IP) telephony, ADSL television, and other non-package services; and traditional Switched Voice services, such as preselected telephony and special toll-free numbers to individual customers. SFR offers mobile telephony retail services, access to mobile data services (particularly secure remote access to networks and business applications), mobile Internet access, machine-to-machine solutions in data communications, telemetry, electronic banking and security, and security for assets and individuals; and multiplay data services, such as telephone subscriptions, IP telephony, high-speed Internet access, virtual private network, and other services to professional and business customers. SFR also offers wholesale mobile telephony services to mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) to enable them to provide a set of retail access and mobile outgoing call services, as MVNOs are not authorized to use frequencies; and wholesale services, including data offerings, switched voice services and network, and hosting infrastructure solutions for electronic communications operators. Competition SFR faces competition in the French mobile telephony market from Orange France and Bouygues Telecom. Its competitors also include MVNOs, such as Virgin Mobile, Breizh Mobile, Carrefour Mobile, Numericable and Tele2 Mobile, as well as ISPs offering convergent solutions. SFR’s competitors in fixed telephony/high-speed Internet are primarily France Telecom and Iliad (Free). It also competes with Numericable and Bouygues Telecom. MAROC TELECOM GROUP The Maroc Telecom Group is a fixed and mobile telecommunications operator and Internet access provider with 14.4 million cell phone customers and approximately 1.3 million fixed line customers in Africa, primarily in Morocco. It also offers services Mauritania, Burkina Faso, and Gabon. Maroc Telecom has a direct and indirect distribution network comprising approximately 45,000 points-of-sale which are subject to distribution agreements entered into with local resellers or national retailers. Mobile Telephony Maroc Telecom offers voice and data communication offerings. It also introduced 3G+ voice offerings, available to all its customers, both subscribers and prepaid customers, and sells 3G Internet service for pre-paid customers to give them access to high-speed mobile connections. It also offers value-added services, such as the BlackBerry, the 3G mobile Internet, personalized ringtones, mobile ins