Wanadoo

Wanadoo S.A. is one of Europe's top three Internet service providers (ISPs), along with rivals T-Online and Tiscali. The company, a subsidiary of France Telecom, boasts nearly ten million customers chiefly in France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and The Netherlands, but also in Morocco, Jordan, Mauritius, and Algeria. France remains Wanadoo's single largest market, accounting for more than four million subscribers. The company is also one of the leading ISPs in the United Kingdom, through its subsidiary Wanadoo UK, formerly Freeserve. The company's Internet services have focused especially on building up its broadband network, based on both the ADSL and ADSL+ protocols. In 2004, the company launched its WIFI-equipped Livebox, combining Internet capability with Internet telephony capacity. Since late 2005, the company also has begun rolling out Internet television services as well. Wanadoo's true strength, however, lies in its strong content and services component. The company's PagesJaunes Internet-based yellow pages directories are a major source of revenues for the group, and include a base of nearly 700,000 business customers.