Wanadoo

Wanadoo was from 1996 to 2006 one of the most important French Internet Service Provider ( ISP), before the service was renamed Orange in 2006. Originally an independent subsidiary of France Telecom, Wanadoo group was brought together after the takeover of the British Orange by France Telecom with this.

The business purpose of the company was the provision of services providers in the telecommunications sector of retail banking. The business part of who owned the telephone directory in the business association in 2004 under the name of Pages Jaunes ( Yellow Pages ) was floated. 2002, sales Wanadoo was more than 2 billion euros, of which 50% of the Internet access, 42% to the yellow pages and 8% on the portals.

In the UK and Belgium, the Company operated among other ADSL connections - there via Wanadoo Belgique, which was sold to Tiscali in the first quarter of 2003.

The activities of the Wanadoo web portal provided by the subsidiary Wanadoo Portails who together laid the access with Wanadoo France 2003. The portals of Wanadoo consisted of Wanadoo, Voilà, Wanadoo in Spain ( originally Eresmas ), Freeserve ( now known as Wanadoo UK ). The portal decreed in France through the search engine Voila, which was developed by the Company Echo and taken over by Wanadoo in 2001.

In the UK, Wanadoo changed its name to 28 April 2004 under the name Freeserve.