- France Télécom
- Trading as Orange, France Télécom, is the former state telecommunications company in France, responsible for the upkeep of the national telephone and telecommunications network . Privatised in 1998 by Lionel Jospin's socialist government, it remains by far the largest fixed and mobile telecoms operator in France, and the largest ISP, with over 7 million broadband customers, well ahead of its biggest rival Free.fr (see below). FT is also one of the world's biggest telecoms corporations, operating phone services in over thirty countries, and is the leading Internet service provider in Europe.
Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique. 2014.