Invest in Côte d’Azur

A magnet for the telecoms business for over 30 years, the Côte d’Azur today has become a true cluster for the mobile sector and home to a wide range of activities. The region has attracted leading world players in IT and telecoms, small and medium-sized companies, innovative start-ups and renowned researchers, which has positioned it at the vanguard of the telecoms sector.

The Côte d'Azur is one of the few regions in Europe where the sector’s entire value chain is concentrated, from design right through to implementation, and an extremely wide range of expertise can also be found that includes wireless IP networks, semiconductor design, embedded security devices, IPTV and content for mobiles.

1/3rd of all the mobiles sold around the world are equipped with a chip developed on the Côte d’Azur

Two organizations, which are both based at Sophia Antipolis, ETSI (European Telecom Standards Institute) and the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) also play a key role in setting European telecoms and network standards.

Key Côte d’Azur IT experts include - multinationals, small and medium-sized companies and institutions - who will all have stands at the MWC and include: Accenture, Cisco, Dassault Systemes, Hitachi, Quescom, Telit Communications, Xilinx, Etsi, Infineon, Intel, Open Plug, UDCast, Verisign, Wipro, Wavecom, Smartcom, ICERA, Verimatrix, Trusted Logic, Amadeus, Mentor Graphics, ARM, CSR, IBM and ST-Ericsson.