France Telecom
France Telecom is the main telecommunication company in France. It employs about 189,000 people and has got nearly 90 million customers worldwide. In 2000, it had an annual revenue of 33.7 billion Euros.
Up to 1988, France Telecom was known as the Direction Générale des Télécommunications, a division of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. It became autonomous in 1991. It ceased to be a state monopoly on January 1 1998.
France Telecom owns several subsidiaries, like Wanadoo (first ISP in France, second in Europe) and Orange (first mobile phone company in France).
See also: List of French companies
