Vodafone and French telecoms peer SFR have agreed to renew their strategic global alliance partnership for a further four years.The non-equity partner market agreement will see the two companies continue to provide fixed and mobile telecoms services to multinational customers in France as well as roaming services for consumers travelling in and from the country. Vodafone, which has partnered with SFR since 2002, said that France is an "important enterprise market" for the company with a large number of multinational customers either headquartered or having a satellite office there.SFR Business Team and Vodafone Global Enterprise are expected to work together on new business opportunities, including machine-to-machine (M2M) services, 3G and 4G roaming and unified communications across France and the rest of the world. Vodafone will also continue to offer SFR a range of Vodafone Global Enterprise services for use by customers in France."Our agreement with SFR builds on a longstanding and successful collaboration that began more than 11 years ago, and I'm delighted that this will continue in future," said Vodafone's Chief Executive Vittorio Colao.BC