Wanadoo
Sign in to saveWanadoo was the Internet service provider division of Orange S.A. It operated in France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Senegal, Mauritius, Madagascar, Lebanon and Jordan. It ceased to operate as a worldwide brand on 1 June 2006, when it was rebranded as Orange.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- organization
- Official name
- WANADOO FRANCE
- Country
- France
- Founded by
- Orange
- Headquarters
- Issy-les-Moulineaux
- Owned by
- France Télécom
- Parent organization
- Orange
- Industry
- video game industry
- Country of origin
- France
- Official website
- www.orange.fr
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- inception
- 1995-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2006-00-00
- replaced by
- Orange España
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Wanadoo was the Internet service provider division of Orange S.A. It operated in France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Senegal, Mauritius, Madagascar, Lebanon and Jordan. It ceased to operate as a worldwide brand on 1 June 2006, when it was rebranded as Orange.
The origin of the name Wanadoo is subject to some controversy, as some maintain it came about in the late 1990s when many internet companies chose to compete by creating "Yahoo!"-sounding names. However, it might be that the name Wanadoo first appeared in an internal project at France Télécom, much in line with a number of other such projects such as France Animation until 2003, Intranoo, Tatoo, Netatoo and @noo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wanadoo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.