French mobile services market weighed in with €1.2 billion of revenues 2010 and employed some 10,000 people according to new survey monitored by French association for mobile multimedia AFMM.

The association believes that the growing development of mobile services is due to the growth of mobile internet usages and to the increasing success of smartphones whose users now represent 31.4% of all mobile phone subs.

Around 500 companies are now being active in this market, with 70% of them employing less than 50 persons. Activities range from content and mobile services editors, mobile marketing agencies, website creators and technical solutions suppliers. A third are looking to develop outside of France.