rest of the world

2009 annual reports
Revenues for the Rest of World segment were 8.308 billion euros in 2009, down 0.2% on an historical basis, including the favorable impact of exchange rates (+1.3%) and changes in the scope of consolidation (-0.2%). Revenues fell 1.2% on a comparable basis. Excluding regulatory measures (-157 million euros), revenues rose 0.7%:
-   in Africa and the Middle East, revenues increased 5.2% (+5.8% excluding regulatory measures), driven by Egypt, Côte d’Ivoire and new operations in Africa , which rose sharply (+23%);
-   in Western Europe, revenues grew 1.1% (+3.1% excluding regulatory measures), driven by 1.9% growth in Belgium (+4.2% excluding regulatory measures);
-   in Eastern Europe, revenues declined 12.9% (-9.7% excluding regulatory measures), largely due to the 19.5% decline in revenues in Romania (-16.7% excluding regulatory measures).
The number of mobile services customers continued to climb sharply (+16.5%), to 64.2 million customers at 31 December 2009, with 9.1 million customers added in one year (net of terminations), including 1.2 million customers from new operations in Africa.