Press Release

Paris, March 22 2001
Devoteam pursues its expansion in Spain and France
Devoteam, a European technology consulting Group announces the following acquisitions : - the remaining shares of the capital of the Spanish company Fringes - Devoteam holds 17,5% since May 2000 ; - the French technology consulting company Wap Research, dedicated to the mobile eservices market. These acquisitions will be paid in cash for a total amount of 1 m. Both companies will be consolidated within Devoteam as soon as the second quarter of 2001. Exercising its option to buy out the remaining shares of Fringes Systemas Informaticos, Devoteam acquires 100% of the capital of the company, confirming its presence on the Spanish market. Fringes S.I is a service company specialised in telecommunication networks. The company based in Madrid and Valencia employs around 30 persons and recorded a turnover of 5,3 M for the year 2000. Fringes is a Cisco Partner in Spain and provides Internet infrastructure services for its clients (mainly telecom operators and major financial institutions), in particular on IP networks. Fringes also provides its clients with network Advanced Training and Support offers. Fringes has a blue chips customer base (Telefonica, Supercable de Andalucia, Uni2, Ola internet, El Corte Ingles, Caixa). For Telefonica, Fringes developed a WAP solution based on a Cisco platform, created all the technical support documentation and trained the clients teams.
Wap Research is a French technology company with 20 employees, created in May 2000 and dedicated to the fast growing mobile e-services market (SMS, WAP, PDA, Pocket PC). Wap Research provides its clients with a tangible expertise ranging from strategic consulting to added-value outsourcing solutions, including applications development based on different environments such as multi channel applications, synchronization servers, security, payment and authentication on mobile devices.
Devoteam Group will benefit from its technical and functional expertise in m-services solutions, such as voice ml, voice recognition and Interactive Television. Wap Research develops high level partnerships with major players in the m-business market: Nokia, Celesta (telecom and smart phones), Oracle, IBM and Wokup (multi devices application servers), Extended System (Palm), Compaq and HP. The company' clients are telecom operators (France Telecom, Bouygues Entreprises), added s value content providers (NRJ, Playsoft), and blue chips (Pfizer, Vivendi Environment, Natexis).
Statement of Godefroy de Bentzmann, Co-Chairman of Devoteams Managing Board : These operations are part of our selective acquisition strategy, aiming at strengthening our technology services offering and confirming our position Group as a European leader in technology consulting.
About Devoteam Created in 1995, DEVOTEAM is a European technology consulting group, providing consulting, expertise and project management services in telecom and corporate Networks, information systems infrastructures and e-business applications. The group recorded revenues of 66.1 M in 2000, counts 1015 employees and has offices in France, Belgium, Spain, UK and the Netherlands. DEVOTEAM has been listed on the Nouveau March of Euronext Paris (Sicovam 7379) since October 1999.

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Co-President of the Managing Board Stanislas de BENTZMANN Stanislas.de.bentzmann@devoteam.com Analysts/Investors relations Grgoire CAYATTE gregoire.cayatte@devoteam.com Tel +48 48
Analysts/Investors relations Nicole ROFFE nroffe@actus.fr Press relations Olivia COMELLI ocomelli@actus.fr Tel + 36 36

press release

Paris, 7 June 2010
France Telecom-Orange signs the construction agreement for the new Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable
The ACE submarine cable will connect the majority of West African countries to the global broadband network. The 20 members of the ACE consortium have signed the agreement for the construction and maintenance of the Africa Coast to Europe submarine cable, which will run between France and South Africa. By signing this agreement, France Telecom-Orange has reinforced its presence in Africa and furthered its ambition to democratize Internet access in the region. The ACE cable will reduce the cost of access to international telecommunications networks, thereby removing a major barrier to the Internet's development in Africa. An official ceremony was held at the Eiffel tower on 5 June to mark the signature of this contract. The event was chaired by Stphane Richard, CEO of France Telecom, in the presence of the other consortium members as well as official representatives of the countries involved. In its planned configuration, the 17,000 km-long fiber optic cable will be operational in the first half of 2012. It will connect 23 countries, either directly in the case of coastal countries or indirectly for landlocked countries.
This will be the first international submarine cable to land in Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Sao Tome and Principe, and Equatorial Guinea. For Senegal, Cte dIvoire and Cameroon, which are already connected to the SAT3-WASC-SAFE cable (also co-owned by France Telecom-Orange), ACE will secure communications traffic while providing the additional capacity necessary for future growth. ACE will also provide the Group's subsidiaries in eastern Africa and Runion with an alternative for routing telecommunications traffic (voice and data) to Europe via western Africa. The northern segment of the cable will also diversify transmission arteries between France and Portugal.
a vital resource for economic and social development in Africa To carry out this ambitious project, France Telecom-Orange set up a consortium made up of 20 members: France Telecom, Baharicom Development Company Ltd, Benin Telecoms, Cte dIvoire Telecom, Companhia Santomense de Telecomunicacoes, Expresso Telecom Group, Gamtel, International Mauritania Telecom, Cable Consortium of Liberia Inc., Office Congolais des Postes et Tlcommunications, Orange Cameroon, Orange Guinea, Orange Mali, Orange Niger, Portugal Telecom, the Gabonese Republic, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone Cable Ltd., Sonatel and Sotelgui. ACE is an additional component of France Telecom-Oranges corporate social responsibility efforts. For almost 20 years, the Group has been providing support to education, health and cultural programs through the Orange Foundation. In providing global broadband Internet access to many of West African countries, the ACE cable will facilitate the implementation and growth of Orange Foundation initiatives, in particular to educate girls in developing countries and keep them in school. a key component of the Group's global broadband network ACE relies on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), currently the most advanced technology for submarine cables. With WDM, cable capacity can be increased without additional submarine work. With an overall potential capacity of 5.12 Tbps, the system is designed to migrate to the new 40 Gbps technology that will support tomorrow's ultra-broadband networks. The project confirms France Telecom-Oranges position as a leading player in submarine cables in this part of the world. Together with the LION cable linking Madagascar, Mauritius and Runion - soon to be extended to Kenya with the LION2 cable - and the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy), ACE strengthens the Group's overall broadband network in Africa while providing the quality of service to be expected of the Orange brand to an increasing number of customers. The cable's construction represents an overall investment of around USD 700 million for the consortium, of which around USD 250 million will be supported by the Group and its subsidiaries. This investment reflects the Group's ambitions to make narrowband and broadband Internet access widely available in Africa, where the Group now operates in some fifteen countries; and to meet customer expectations for improved quality of service across its global network. ACE brings superior connectivity to the market, provides access to a broad range of new and innovative services, and promotes economic and social development on the African continent.

About Orange Orange is the key brand of France Telecom, one of the worlds leading telecommunications operators. With almost 131 million customers, the Orange brand now covers internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the Group operates. At the end of 2009, France Telecom had consolidated sales of 45.9 billion euros (10.9 billion euros for the first quarter 2010) and at 31 March 2010, the Group had a customer base of 183.3 million customers in 32 countries. These include 123.7 million mobile customers and 13.5 million broadband internet (ADSL) customers worldwide. Orange is the number three mobile operator and the number two provider of broadband internet services in Europe and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies. The Group's strategy, which is characterized by a strong focus on innovation, convergence and effective cost management, aims to establish Orange as an integrated operator and benchmark for new telecommunications services in Europe. Today the Group remains focused on its core activities as a network operator, while working to develop its position in new growth activities. To meet customer expectations, the Group strives to provide products and services that are simple and user-friendly, while maintaining a sustainable and responsible business model that can be adapted to the requirements of a fast-paced and changing eco-system. France Telecom (NYSE:FTE) is listed on Euronext Paris (compartment A) and on the New York Stock Exchange. For more information (on the internet and on your mobile): www.orange.com, www.orange-business.com, www.orangeinnovation.tv Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trade marks of Orange Personal Communications Services Limited, Orange France or France Telecom.
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