Orange Business Services has signed a services contract with Lenovo, one of the world’s leading personal computer manufacturers.

Orange Business Services will provide Business Acceleration to connect Lenovo’s global sales team in 13 countries. Business Acceleration is a suite of business services that improves visibility, management and performance of applications through an optimized global communications infrastructure.

Focused on application-centric networking, Business Acceleration provides a predictive end-user experience beyond the infrastructure and enables performance guarantees to end-users. It illustrates Orange Business Services’ goal to help its customers deliver outstanding performances on their core business applications.

The Business Acceleration suite is one of the key services designed to bring focus, control and greater speed to applications that are central to consistent delivery of quality services. The three phases of business acceleration are analysis, management and optimization. The analysis stage is designed to give companies visibility into their communications infrastructure and business critical applications. The management phase is about having the control to manage performance and network resources, prioritizing bandwidth, while optimization is about using company infrastructure to improve the performance of business applications, which often involves simplifying infrastructure to reduce operational costs and ease management.

"Orange Business Services’ Business Acceleration helps bring focus, control and greater speed to our applications. Its vendor-agnostic approach offers us flexible and custom-build solutions that meet our performance needs,” said Lynn Lin, executive director, Global Infrastructure Service, Lenovo. "The combination of services and technology from Orange Business Services helps to enable our global sales team to focus on our customers' needs by launching services faster and more efficiently," added Lin.

The new service will increase network manageability, application performance, and employees’ productivity.

"Lenovo needs world class, optimized business communications to support its global growth plans and maintain seamless connection with the Beijing and other IT hubs,” said Wang Chao, General Manager, China, Orange Business Services. “We are pleased that Lenovo has awarded its contract to Orange Business Services. This agreement demonstrates our strong credentials as an integrated communications provider of choice to companies operating on a global scale."

In addition to Business Acceleration, Orange Business Services will provide a best-in-class solution and technical support to maximize the performance of Lenovo’s global MPLS-based VPN.

About Orange

Orange is the key brand of France Telecom, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators. France Telecom serves more than 177 million customers in five continents as of September 30, 2008, of which two-thirds are Orange customers. The Group had consolidated sales of 52.9 billion euros in 2007 and 39.9 billion euros for the nine first months of 2008. As of September 30, 2008, the Group had 117.6 million mobile customers and 12.4 million broadband Internet (ADSL) customers.

Launched in June 2005, the NExT program (New Experience in Telecommunications) will enable the Group to pursue its transformation as an integrated operator and make France Telecom the benchmark for new telecommunications services in Europe. In 2006, Orange became the Group's single brand for Internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the company operates, and Orange Business Services the banner for services offered to businesses worldwide. France Telecom is the number three mobile operator and the number one provider of broadband Internet services in Europe and one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies.

France Telecom (NYSE:FTE) is listed on Euronext Paris (compartiment A) and on the New York Stock Exchange.

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