The French telecoms regulator, ART, has given France Telecom until the end of January 1999 to finish upgrading its cable networks in Paris. However, ART has upheld a complaint lodged by Paris Cable that France Telecom has been dragging its feet...
Under the terms of the deal, France Telecom will sell Global One to Equant for $300m in cash, and in return, will receive 80.6m new Equant shares. Michel Bon, president of France Telecom said: "The combined business will have the geographic...
France Telecom has reported first half revenue growth of over a third - boosted by strong growth from its mobile phone unit Orange. France Telecom said first half figures for Orange jumped 122.4 per cent to £6.9bn with 35.5 million clients now...
France Telecom is set to shut around 100 of its recently opened high-street outlets by 2004 leaving 11,000 jobs at risk. One of the smaller French unions, CFTC, said France Telecom had told unions that around half of its 650 shops were not making...
Liberty Media 's ongoing quest for European acquisitions has reached the doors of France Telecom, which has agreed to sell its Dutch cable television arm Casema for E750m. France Telecom will see the deal as an opportunity to ease its debt burden...
A report in the Sunday Telegraph claimed that France Telecom is planning a £4bn bid for C&W. If successful, France Telecom would then merge Bulldog, C&W's broadband service, with its own ISP operation Wanadoo.