The most significant acquisition was buying out Vodafone's stake in French telecom group SFR for 7.75bn euros in June.
Unfortunately, French telecom regulator ARCEP doesn't trade in ambiguities.
These two islands are a Gallic aberration in North America, an honest-to-goodness French department in the Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland, where you pay with euros and connect your calls through French telecom services, but with a bit of Canadian bonhomie thrown in.
Still majority-owned by the French government, France Telecom has been struggling to reduce a seventy billion euro debt mountain.
Other Pistorius sponsors include British telecom BT and the French designer Thierry Mugler.
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No list of French dividend stocks would be complete without mentioning France Telecom SA (FTE).
In turn, the French government owns a 29% interest in France Telecom.
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Last week the head of France Telecom, whose biggest shareholder is the French state, with a 27 percent stake, presented the company's plan to deal with the suicides to economy minister Christine Lagarde at a meeting in Paris, after which Lagarde said Lombard had her "full and total confidence".
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The assets it could sell include a 17% stake in Spain's Airtel, a stake in a French mobile telephone company, as well as its stake in Japan Telecom.
The French government has done little to quash rumours that it will bail out France Telecom.
When France Telecom Chairman Didier Lombard woke up on June 25, the idea of partnering with French newspaper Le Monde was a possibility.
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