* Mobistar ( France Telecom )

8 and wireless ), Tricom ( WIMAX, ADSL, and Cable ), Aster ( CABLE ), VIVA ( wireless ), France Telecom ( wireless ), Onemax ( WIMAX ), Wind Telecom ( WIMAX ) ( 2008 )

* 1982: Minitel was introduced nationwide in France by France Telecom and used for online ordering.

Internet Service Providers ( ISPs ): France Telecom ( Orange )

France Telecom offers ISDN services under their product name Numeris ( 2 B + D ), of which a professional Duo and home Itoo version is available.

* Orange ( telecommunications ), a multinational telecommunications subsidiary of France Telecom

The former state owned telephone monopoly ( TPSA ) has been mostly privatised, with France Telecom buying the largest share.

The largest public-share offering in France was France Telecom.

The third sub-system of stored value phone cards is chip cards, first launched on a large scale in 1986 in Germany by Deutsche Bundespost after three years of testing, and in France by France Telecom.

It was privatized in 1997 with France Telecom as the strategic partner.

It was acquired by France Telecom ( through Atlas Services Belgium, 100 % shares ) and rebranded to Orange Slovakia on March 27, 2002.

This proposal was further elaborated in GSM subgroup WP1 Services ( Chairman Martine Alvernhe, France Telecom ) based on a contribution from Germany.

France Telecom proposed a 33 billion Euro acquisition offer for TeliaSonera on 5 June 2008, which was promptly rejected by the company's board.

It was constructed in 1988 by a consortium of companies led by AT & T, France Telecom, and British Telecom.

The idea was that each manufacturer would manufacture part of the system, so French technology procured by France Telecom would land in France, US technology in America procured by AT & T and British technology procured by BT in the UK.

Submarine cables are laid using special cable layer ships, such as the modern René Descartes ( ship ) | René Descartes, operated by France Telecom Marine.

Technicolor ( ex-Thomson ) employs over 1, 000, and France Telecom R & D over 1, 200.

Rennes is the 2nd concentration of ITC firms in France after Paris ( with well-known companies like Atos, SFR, Orange France Telecom, Technicolor R & D, Canon, Mitsubishi, Alcatel-Lucent, Texas Instruments, NXP, Thales or Logica ), and the 3rd innovation potential in agrofood French industry.

France began an aggressive policy of expanding eastward, first to the Rhône and Meuse Rivers, and when those borders were reached, aiming for the Rhine.

A failed coup at Saint-Germain ( February 1574 ), allegedly aiming to release Condé and Navarre who had been held at court since St Bartholemew's, coincided with rather successful Huguenot uprisings in other parts of France such as Lower Normandy, Poitou and the Rhône valley, which reinitiated hostilities.

A marriage plan, originally aiming to establish an alliance between Richard and Philip, to marry Arthur's elder sister Eleanor to Prince Louis of France also failed.

In the mid-1920s, France recruited some 10 former pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille for service in the French Army of Africa, aiming to forestall American public and diplomatic support for the Rif tribes rebelling against French and Spanish colonial rule.

Beuvron-en-Auge was given the label of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France ( The most beautiful villages of France ), decreed by an independent association aiming at promoting to the tourist as sets of small and picturesque French communes of quality heritage.

* Africa Earth Observatory Network ( AEON ), an Earth Science initiative aiming to promote Earth Stewardship through science, with partners in Germany and France.

The main purpose was to show these stations were essentially broadcasters from Luxembourg and not aiming to be commercial stations in Belgium, France and Germany.

* 1994: President of the " Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris-Hôpitaux de France ", a charitable foundation aiming to improve the day-to-day lives of the children and the elderly who have been hospitalised.

On August 13, 1944, Carr and Kerouac attempted, and failed, to ship out of New York to France on a merchant ship – aiming to fulfill a fantasy of walking across France in character as a Frenchman ( Kerouac ) and his deaf-mute friend ( Carr ), and hoping to be in Paris in time for the Allied liberation.

He was implicated in a liberal plot aiming to extort a constitution from king Charles Felix: after having been discovered, he was obliged to take refuge abroad together with his brother, first in Switzerland and then in France.

In 2002, Southdale Center took on a new look with the completion of two projects: Trendz On Top, an area composed of stores aiming toward teenagers, and The District on France comprises retail, entertainment, and dining.

** Operation Ilona ( a plan aiming to counter an Anglo-American invasion of Iberia by holding north Spanish ports to protect German positions in France.

From that time, he was engaged in intrigues with Spain and Savoy aiming at the overthrow of the Bourbon dynasty, the dismemberment of the kingdom of France into provincial states, and his own elevation as sovereign of Burgundy.

But Edward was invading Scotland for precisely the same reason, and his insubordinate vassal was the ally of the king of France.

To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.

Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.

In Europe, Premier Clemenceau, showing his animal proclivities as the `` Tiger of France '', asked Pershing by letter for the creation of special houses where the sexual desires of American men could be satisfied.

We have recently entered into an agreement with Compagnie Generale De Telegraphie Sans Fil ( CSF ) of France for the exclusive exchange of technical information on thermoelectric materials.

Oersted remodeled Ritter's notes into an essay in French which was submitted to the Institut De France for its annual prize of 3,000 francs.

These are the wines the French themselves use for everyday drinking, for even in France virtually no one drinks the Grands Crus on a meal-to-meal basis.

Sydney Wragge, creator of sophisticated casuals for women and Roger Vivier, designer of Christian Dior shoes Paris, France, whose squared toes and lowered heels have revolutionized the shoe industry.

England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy had all been rendered for her time and again, and between the prescribed hours of pills and tonics, she had conceived a dreamy passion by lamplight, to see all these places with her own eyes.

Other Algerian singers of the diaspora include Manel Filali in Germany and Kenza Farah in France. Cheb Hasni an emblematic figure for the Algerian youth, killed by Algerian civil war | terrorists in 1993

Ski resorts such as Les Menuires in France are purpose built for the ski industry and winter tourism.

Until this point Austria and Switzerland had been the traditional and more popular destinations for winter sports, but by the end of the 20th century and into the early 21st century, France, Italy and the Tyrol began so see increases in winter visitors.

Some were the equivalent of Paneloux and thought that France was to blame for the calamity that had befallen it.

* 1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $ 15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.

He was a regent for the French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems during the Nazi occupation of Vichy France which implemented the eugenics policies there ; his association with the Foundation led to allegations of collaborating with the Nazis.

He received his medical degree from Université de Lyon, and practiced in France and in the United States at the University of Chicago and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

The connection of the lesser lay abbots with the abbeys, especially in the south of France, lasted longer ; and certain feudal families retained the title of abbes chevaliers ( abbates milltes ) for centuries, together with certain rights over the abbey lands or revenues.

He executed important works for both the Queen of France and Mme.

For example, " piaf " was a Parisian argot word for " sparrow "; after being taken up by the singer Edith Piaf, this meaning became well known in France and worldwide, and no longer serves the purpose of a secret language.

The school has been highly influential in setting the agenda for historiography in France and numerous other countries, especially regarding the use of social scientific methods by historians, emphasizing social rather than political or diplomatic themes, and for being generally hostile to the class analysis of Marxist historiography.

Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France in World War II for his active membership of the French Resistance, and Febvre carried on the Annales approach in the 1940s and 1950s.