Orange Business Services Enhances Business Together Family by Adding Enterprise Telephony Feature

packaged service:a step further toward unifying all communications
PARIS--(Business Wire)--
Eighteen months after the launch of Business Together with Microsoft, Orange
Business Services complements the "family" solution with enterprise telephony
features.

The Orange offer Managed Microsoft OCS with Enterprise Telephony supports
advanced telephony features within Microsoft applications by integrating Cisco
IP telephony. According to industry analysts, Orange is "first to market" with a
packaged service offer. This service represents a further step toward unifying
all communications.

According to Peter Hall, Principal Analyst at Ovum, in the February 2009 report
Unified communications strategies of global telcos: "In terms of current offers,
Orange has the greatest clarity in articulating its global strategy. The
company's approach to new solutions is to plan them for global rollout from the
outset. Amongst the global telcos, Orange has the broadest scope of UC solutions
today in terms of vendors supported on a global scale, having global
accreditation for Avaya, Cisco and Microsoft and being at an advanced stage in
building out its global support for Alcatel-Lucent. The company also has strong
commitment to offering the broadest range of fully-managed offerings, with
premise-based, hosted and hybrid models available for most of its solutions."

Used by 450,000 end-users, Business Together by Orange Business Services helps
employees to collaborate efficiently regardless of their location. With this new
packaged unified communications service, employees use a single end-user client
- Microsoft Office Communicator - to unify instant messaging, e-mail, telephony,
mobile phone and others.

With integrated Cisco IP phones, employees can access advanced telephony
features, such as presence and click-to-call, within Microsoft Office
Communicator, Outlook, Office suite and SharePoint. Presence allows employees to
see another user's communications capabilities and availability before calling
or messaging and enables colleagues to quickly find the right resources in order
to collaborate more efficiently.

Key business benefits of Managed Microsoft OCS with Enterprise Telephony are:
reduced voice costs, cost-per-user pricing with no capital investment, reduced
travel, minimized human delays, and increased worker productivity resulting in
improved business processes.

"Multinationals are looking for ways to effectively respond to the current
economic challenges by reducing costs while increasing worker productivity,"
said Laurent Kocher, senior vice president, Global Services, Orange Business
Services. "Business Together achieves both goals helping our customers to become
more efficient and gain a competitive advantage."

About Orange

Orange is the key brand of France Telecom, one of the world`s leading
telecommunications operators. With 123 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 2008, France Telecom had consolidated
sales of 53.5 billion euros and a customer base of more than 182 million
customers in 30 countries. These include 122 million mobile customers worldwide
and 13 million broadband Internet (ADSL) customers in Europe. Orange is the
number three mobile operator and the number one 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: www.orange.com, www.francetelecom.com,
www.orange-business.com

Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material
are trademarks of Orange Personal Communications Services Limited, Orange France
or France Telecom.

Orange Business Services - Global, Europe and Asia Pacific
Frédéric Gielec, +33 1 46 46 2189
frederic.gielec@orange-ftgroup.com
or
Orange Business Services - Americas
Elizabeth Mayeri, +1 212 251 2086
elizabeth.mayeri@orange-ftgroup.com
or
Orange
Bertrand Deronchaine, +33 1 44 44 93 93
bertrand.deronchaine@orange-ftgroup.com
or
Georgina Hart, +44 77 309 896 93
georgina.hart@orange-ftgroup.com
or
Erika Gelinard, +33 1 44 44 93 93
egelinard.ext@orange-ftgroup.com

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