Continued strong performance by France Telecom in the first half 2008

France Telecom (Paris:FTE)(NYSE:FTE) group’s consolidated revenues for the first half 2008 rose to €26.304 billion, a 3.9% increase on a comparable basis following a 3.6% increase in the second half of 2007.

Home Communication Services (HCS)

ADSL digital TV services (IPTV) had a total of 1.54 million subscribers in Europe at 30 June 2008, compared with 872,000 one year earlier, a 76% increase in one year.

ADSL TV (IPTV) customers (thousands):

               As at     As at     As at     As at     As at     As at
            31 March   30 June  30 Sept,   31 Dec,  31 March   30 June
                2007      2007      2007      2007      2008      2008
            --------  --------  --------  --------  --------  --------
Europe           768       872     1,017     1,243     1,407     1,535
 - France        745       837       975     1,149     1,282     1,389
 - Poland          9        19        23        40        49        54
 - Others         14        16        18        54        75        92

HCS France

At 30 June 2008, there were 1.389 million ADSL Television subscribers (IPTV), a 65.9% increase from a year ago, with Video on Demand services (VOD) more than doubling to 2.182 million paid downloads in the first half of 2008 compared with 907,000 in the first half of 2007.

HCS Poland

The number of ADSL accesses rose to 2.082 million at 30 June 2008, for a year on year increase of 11.7%. Multiservices were also up, with the growth of Livebox, Voice over IP and ADSL Television.

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