Catégorie - France Telecom
France Telecom holds targets, but sales drop
PARIS -France Telecom held to its financial targets for the year on Thursday despite a drop in sales in the third quarter. The sales fall of 6.4 percent to 12.69 billion euros (18.67 billion dollars) was bigger than a consensus forecast by analysts, as polled by Dow Jones Newswires, of 5.2 percent.
2009-10-29 -
Malaysian Mirror
L'échelle "magique" de France Telecom, un nouveau danger ?
France Télécom Orange est en passe de révolutionner le secteur de… l'échelle. Après trois années de cogitations, l'entreprise a mis en production chez Tubesca une « échelle magique » en ce sens qu'elle permet de faire intervenir un seul technicien au lieu de deux. en lire plus
2009-11-20 -
rue89
Suicide Epidemic Sweeps France Telecom
25th Suicide at France Telecom Since 2008 (CBS) If you work, no one has to tell you that stress is part of just about every job. But at one company it's out of control. France Telecom is undergoing a...
2009-11-21 -
MalaysiaNews.net
France Telecom: We'll meet our 2009 goals
It has been a tough year to say the least for France Telecom, yet the company remains confident that it will achieve its financial targets for 2009. The once state-run telco has seen an unprecedented number of employee suicides over the past year (25 to date) over poor working conditions and ongoing layoffs. Achieving these goals won't be easy. France Telecom reported that its third-quarter ...
2009-11-16 -
FierceTelecom
France Telecom optimistic on Swiss deal
France Telecom on Wednesday indicated it was confident the planned merger of its Swiss operations with those of Denmark’s TDC to create a stronger rival to Swisscom would be approved by the competition authorities.
2009-11-25 -
Financial Times
France Telecom stuck with €1bn aid bill by Euro court
A fine mess EU've gotten me into France Telecom has been hit for €1bn, after the European Court of First Instance rejected its appeal against a ruling that it enjoyed eight years of unfair tax breaks from the French government.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2009-12-01 -
The Register
Court orders France Telecom to pay EUR 1 bln in back taxes
(Telecompaper) The European Court of First Instance has rejected the appeal of the French State and France Telecom concerning litigation on professional tax prior to 2003. The court upheld an August 2004 European Commission decision that the difference between the business tax paid by France Telecom and that which should have been paid during 1994-2002 constituted state aid incompatible with the ...
2009-12-01 -
Digital Media Europe
France Telecom loses in European court
France Telecom , Europe’s third-largest telecoms group, on Monday lost its court appeal against a European Commission order to repay about €1bn ($1.5bn) of state aid to the French government that Brussels had deemed illegal.
2009-11-30 -
Financial Times
France Telecom names Stephane Richard to deputy CEO post
France Telecom made it official this week that Stephane Richard will become the telco's Deputy CEO beginning in January 2010. Richard's appointment was submitted by France Telecom's current chairman and CEO, Didier Lombard, who has come under fire by political groups over the ongoing raft of employee suicides, as part of the succession process. France Telecom’s board of directors said that ...
2009-12-03 -
FierceTelecom
France Telecom sets sights on Africa, Mid East
France Telecom is confident about expanding its fortunes in other countries, but in obtaining those goals it will continue to expand in markets where it already has an established presence and, in addition, Africa and the Middle East. "I don't believe in large, trans-border mergers that often destroy more value than they create for shareholders," said Stephane Richard said in an interview with ...
2009-12-14 -
FierceTelecom
(AFX UK Focus) 2009-12-14 07:49 France Telecom announces offer details for Mobinil
CAIRO, Dec 14 (Reuters) - France Telecom announced an offer in newspapers on Monday to buy outstanding shares in Egypt's Mobinil, putting the total value of shares under offer at 12 billion Egyptian pounds ($2.2 billion). France Telecom subsidiary Orange Participations is offering 245 pounds for each freely traded share in Mobinil, which is at the centre of a row between its main shareholders ...
2009-12-14 -
Interactive Investor
France Telecom gets green light to acquire Mobinil
France Telecom has secured the assets of Egypt’s largest mobile carrier Mobinil after receiving a surprise clearance from Egypt’s regulator. The acquisition has hung in the balance for months as France Telecom and the other major shareholder, Orascom Telecom, disputed the buy-out.
2009-12-14 -
telecomasia.net
France Telecom gets approval in MobiNil bid
Egypt's Financial Supervisory Authority has approved France Telecom's offer to buy the remaining shares of Egyptian Co. for Mobile Services (MobiNil), Bloomberg has reported. The French firm has offered to pay EGP245 ($44.70) a share for MobiNil.
2009-12-12 -
AME Info
France Telecom Gets Regulators’ Approval on Egyptian Co. Bid
France Telecom has been in an ownership dispute over Egyptian Co. with Orascom Telecom Holding SAE , the largest mobile-phone operator in the Middle East. France Telecom won an arbitration ruling this year requiring Orascom to sell its stake in Mobinil Telecom, a holding company that owns 51 percent of Egyptian Co.
2009-12-11 -
Bloomberg
France Telecom staff survey confirms social tension
(Telecompaper) France Telecom has received the first conclusions of a questionnaire on working conditions sent by consultants Technologia to the group's 102,000 customers in France. The procedure was put in place after the company experienced 32 staff suicides in two years. The over 80,000 workers who answered the 160-question survey revealed a tense working environment blamed on management ...
2009-12-15 -
Digital Media Europe