Corps of Telecommunications (France)

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The Corps of Telecommunications (Corps des Télécommunications) is a great technical corps of the French state. It is formed of the State Engineers of the Telecommunications.

People entering the Corps are educated at the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications. Most of them are from École Polytechnique; these are known as X-Telecom; the rest come from École Normale Supérieure, regular curriculum of the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications or via internal promotion.

[edit] Important former or current members

• Didier Lombard, CEO of France Télécom (Orange)
• Jean-Bernard Levy, CEO of Vivendi