Allianz Plays It Safe with Orange Business Services

Business Wire, Oct 29, 2007

Allianz SE Renews Worldwide Agreement with Orange Business Services until 2010

PARIS -- Allianz has renewed a three-year global IP VPN deal with Orange Business Services. The network spans 65 countries and includes managed firewall and conferencing services.

Allianz SE is one of the world's leading financial service providers with more than 177,000 employees in 700 branches and about 70 million customers worldwide.

Orange Business Services will continue to provide a stable and highly scalable IP VPN connection among the international subsidiaries of Allianz in 65 countries. Orange Business Services has been responsible for the critical international business network since 1999.

Dr. Franz Vojik at Allianz SE explains why Allianz again opted for Orange Business Services: "The robust and secure network supports our efforts to improve our service and to achieve our goals worldwide. With this exercise the experts of Orange Business Services supported us from the beginning."

About Orange

Orange is the key brand of France Telecom, one of the world's leading telecommunications operators. France Telecom serves more than 163 million customers in five continents as of June 30, 2007, of which two thirds are Orange customers. The Group had consolidated sales of 51.7 billion euros in 2006 and 25.9 billion euros for the 1st semester of 2007. At June 30, 2007 the group had 102.5 million mobile customers and 10.5 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 and on the New York Stock Exchange.

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