France Telecom third quarter 2008 financial information

Thursday, October 30th, 2008
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PARIS — France Telecom (Paris:FTE)(NYSE:FTE) group’s consolidated revenue rose to 39.854 billion euros in the first nine months of 2008, up 1.1% on an historical basis.

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The continued decline in traditional telephone services was largely offset by the steady growth in the use of ADSL Broadband and Multiservices. In particular, the third quarter of 2008 saw an acceleration in Voice over IP services (with nearly 370,000 new customers) and of digital TV, with new service offers (satellite TV and “Orange foot” football service in France). The number of digital TV customers came to 1.746 million at 30 September 2008, with 211,000 new customers in the third quarter of 2008.

ADSL digital TV services (IPTV) had a total of 1.746 million subscribers in Europe at 30 September 2008, compared with 1.017 million at 30 September 2007, a 72% increase in one year.

IPTV customers (‘000):

                1Q06   2Q06   3Q06   4Q06   1Q07   2Q07   3Q07   4Q07   1Q08   2Q08   3Q08
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France*           229    306    421    577    745    837    975  1,149  1,282  1,389  1,603
Poland                                   3      9     19     23     40     49     54     57
Others                            5     10     14     16     18     54     75     92     86
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Total Europe      229    306    426    590    768    872  1,017  1,243  1,407  1,535  1,746

* Orange TV customers (ADSL and Satellite)

HCS France

1.603 million digital TV subscribers (satellite and ADSL television), an increase of 64.4% in one year. With respect to this, at 30 September 2008, there were a total of 70,000 subscribers to the Orange satellite TV offer marketed since 3 July.

Video on Demand services (VOD) more than doubled to 3.4 million paid downloads during the first nine months of 2008, compared with 1.6 million in the same period of 2007.

There were a total of 59,300 subscribers, at 30 September 2008, to the “Orange foot” football service (TV broadcast live and on demand) which has been marketed since 9 August.

HCS Poland

The number of ADSL subscribers rose to 2.087 million at 30 September 2008, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%.

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