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France Telecom is the main telecommunication company in France. It employs about 189,000 people and has nearly 90 million customers worldwide, including the French D�partements d'outre mer. In 2000, it had an annual revenue of 33.7 billion Euros.
Up to 1988, France Telecom was known as the Direction G�n�rale des T�l�communications, 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