Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
activité fixe
English translation:
fixed telephony business
Added to glossary by
Stephanie Mitchel
Feb 11, 2005 02:42
19 yrs ago
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French term
United States
activité fixe
French to English
Bus/Financial
Telecom(munications)
Discussing share values of telecom companies.
Is this the land-line business? What's the term? Thank you.
"Activité fixe
"Opérateur fixe no 2 en France derrière France Télécom, [X] est présent à travers trois branches :la branche Particuliers et Professionels [...] la branche Entreprises [...] et la branche Opérateurs [...]"
Is this the land-line business? What's the term? Thank you.
"Activité fixe
"Opérateur fixe no 2 en France derrière France Télécom, [X] est présent à travers trois branches :la branche Particuliers et Professionels [...] la branche Entreprises [...] et la branche Opérateurs [...]"
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | Fixed telephony |
HLB
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| 5 +2 | yes |
sarahl (X)
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| 3 | wire line/fixed line activity |
Elena Petelos
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Proposed translations
7 hrs
French term (edited):
activit� fixe
Selected
Fixed telephony
Cegetel/SFR itself refers to its business lines as Fixed telephony and Mobile telephony.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "thanks HLB!"
5 mins
Elena Petelos
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Works in field
United Kingdom
Medical, Legal, Technical
Native in: Greek
Works in: English to Greek, Greek to English, French to English, and 3 more.
Related KudoZ points
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8
French term (edited):
activit� fixe
wire line/fixed line activity
shareholders actions principales : main actions
activité fixe : wire-line / fixed-line activity activité sous-traitée ...
http://lalogistique.chez.tiscali.fr/Lexique_franco_anglais.h...
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Note added at 13 mins (2005-02-11 02:56:07 GMT)
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describes some of the current broadband wire-line activities in ETSI: •
Home networking • xDSL (the family of Digital Subscriber Line ...
http://www.eeurope-standards.org/ Docs/Broadband%20Wire-line%20Access.pdf
UK fixed line activity remains dominated by a single service provider with other
suppliers using the infrastructure of the main supplier. ...
http://stds.statcan.ca/english/voorburg/ 2004%20ottawa/papers/ppi-telecommservices-uk.pdf
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls...
...landline..
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-06...
activité fixe : wire-line / fixed-line activity activité sous-traitée ...
http://lalogistique.chez.tiscali.fr/Lexique_franco_anglais.h...
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Note added at 13 mins (2005-02-11 02:56:07 GMT)
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describes some of the current broadband wire-line activities in ETSI: •
Home networking • xDSL (the family of Digital Subscriber Line ...
http://www.eeurope-standards.org/ Docs/Broadband%20Wire-line%20Access.pdf
UK fixed line activity remains dominated by a single service provider with other
suppliers using the infrastructure of the main supplier. ...
http://stds.statcan.ca/english/voorburg/ 2004%20ottawa/papers/ppi-telecommservices-uk.pdf
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls...
...landline..
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-06...
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
sarahl (X)
: broadband??? this is phone service, melenia!
23 hrs
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:-))) Wire-line is not wire...less sokolatenia :-))http://tinyurl.com/5zubd Landline= Traditional wired or wire-line phone system or service. http://tinyurl.com/6besz ...Can't see me mentioning wireless anywehere....au contraire :-))
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26 mins
French term (edited):
activit� fixe
yes
landline, téléphone fixe as opposed to portable.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Conor McAuley
: Yes, landline
4 hrs
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thanks Conor!
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| agree |
Connor
6 hrs
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thanks Connor!
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| agree |
Charlie Bavington
: this is certainly what we laymen call it; I couldn't say what the actual operators themselves use when speaking "technically". So might depend on target audience. But generally, yes, landline.
8 hrs
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thanks Charlie!
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Wayne Sutton (X)
: "landline" can be restrictive and is not generally used (in the business) to describe this sort of activity. Fixed-telephony or fixed-line business would be safer.
9 hrs
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I was just trying to tell Steph what it means, she can take it from here.
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Elena Petelos
: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-06,GGL..."wireline" definition&spell=1 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-06,GGL..."wireline" definition&spell=1 http://tinyurl.com/3uuew to clear it! /sothikame better :)
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wire line, as in télégramme ! oops! sothikame, efxaristo melenia.
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