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activité fixe

English translation: fixed telephony business


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French term or phrase:activité fixe
English translation:fixed telephony business
Entered by: Stephanie Mitchel
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02:42 Feb 11, 2005
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Telecom(munications)
French term or phrase: activité fixe
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 [...]"
Stephanie Mitchel
Local time: 19:40
Fixed telephony
Explanation:
Cegetel/SFR itself refers to its business lines as Fixed telephony and Mobile telephony.
Selected response from:

HLB
Local time: 02:40
Grading comment
thanks HLB!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +2yesxxxsarahl
4Fixed telephonyHLB
3wire line/fixed line activity
Elena Petelos


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
activité fixe
wire line/fixed line activity


Explanation:
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...

Elena Petelos
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:40
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GreekGreek
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  xxxsarahl: broadband??? this is phone service, melenia!
23 hrs
  -> :-))) 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   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
activité fixe
yes


Explanation:
landline, téléphone fixe as opposed to portable.

xxxsarahl
Local time: 17:40
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Conor McAuley: Yes, landline
4 hrs
  -> thanks Conor!
agree  Connor
6 hrs
  -> thanks Connor!
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
  -> thanks Charlie!
disagree  xxxWayne Sutton: "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
  -> I was just trying to tell Steph what it means, she can take it from here.
neutral  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 :)
1 day7 hrs
  -> wire line, as in télégramme ! oops! sothikame, efxaristo melenia.
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
activité fixe
Fixed telephony


Explanation:
Cegetel/SFR itself refers to its business lines as Fixed telephony and Mobile telephony.

HLB
Local time: 02:40
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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thanks HLB!
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