List of Yellow Pages - F

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• Finland: In Finland, the directories are called Keltaiset sivut, Eniro.fi and Teloos.fi
• France: In France, Yellow Pages are referred to as Pages Jaunes. They are distributed free by Pagesjaunes.fr, a company affiliated with France Télécom. pagesjaunes.com, the .com version of Pages Jaunes, was the issue of a major court case at WIPO; the original registrant, an individual from Los Angeles, won against France Télécom. This court decision defended by the Parisian Lawyer, Andre Bertrand, was path-setting for the whole European Yellow Pages industry, as it decided that the phrase "Yellow Pages" cannot be considered the property of a single company. Previously, many former state monopoly telecom companies outside the US had tried to ban competition by claiming the term "yellow pages", or the translation of "yellow pages" into the vernacular, as their exclusive trademark. Vivendi Universal moved to enter the French Yellow Pages market in 2001 with scoot.fr, but the attempt was a killed by a reorganisation of the struggling company. www.yellowpages.fr is edited by www.phonebookoftheworld.com. Another French editor of Yellow Pages is Bottin. More competition is expected in November 2005 from the liberalisation of "12", the former unique "4-1-1" number of Renseignements Telephoniques, French for Directory Inquiry. In November 2006 France Télécom sold its majority participation in www.pagesjaunes.fr to Mediannuaire.
  In August 2007 www.pagesjaunes.com finally became active giving France 2 different Pages Jaunes, this creating agitation at www.pagesjaunes.fr which reshaped their site and started a massive advertisement campaign all over France.