Glossary

Term	Description
11, 3611, Le 11	Prefix for accessing the electronic phone book.
3613	Prefix for connections fully paid for by the service provider.
3614	Prefix for connections paid for by the user.
3615	Prefix for services paid for by the user at a higher rate than 3614. Most popular culture services, including messageries roses, were listed under 3615.
3616, 3617, 3619	Prefixes for services paid for by the user at a higher rate than 3615.
3618	Prefix used to establish a direct connection from an end user to another end user (Minitel to Minitel service).
Annuaire électronique	Electronic phone book.
Antiope	The videotex display standard used in Télétel.
Baud rate	Bits per second.
CCETT	Centre commun d’études de télévision et télécommunications. The joint research center of the television and telecommunications agencies (ORTF and DGT).
CNET	Centre national d'études des télécommunications. The research center of the DGT.
CST	Conseil supérieur de la télématique. Superior Telematics Council. The administrative agency in charge of overseeing Télétel.
DGT	Direction générale des télécommunications. The branch of the PTT responsible for operating the phone network and Téletel.
Domotique	Home automation.
France Telecom	Organizational identity of the DGT after 1988. Would keep the name until 2013 when it was renamed Orange, by then a fully privatized corporation.
Intelmatique	The France Telecom affiliate in charge of exporting Minitel.
IP	Internet Protocol.
Kiosque	Literally, kiosk or newsstand, but in the context of Minitel, le kiosque refers to the system for billing users for their connection time.
Logiciel	Software.
Messagerie	Chat room.
Minitel	Médium interactif par numérisation d'information téléphonique. Literally, interactive medium by digitization of telephonic information.
Miniteliste	Minitel user.
Orange	Legacy incumbent phone operator in France. Formerly France Telecom, which was formerly the DGT.
ORTF	Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française. The State radio and television monopoly operator until 1974.
PAVI	Point d’accès vidéotex. Videotex access point. Gateway between the PSTN and the Transpac public data network.
PDN	Public data network.
PSTN	Public switched telephone network.
PTT	Post, Telegraph and Telephone Ministry.
RTC	Réseau téléphonique commuté. The public switched telephone network (PSTN).
T3V	Télétel 3V. The 3 “V’s” refer to the cities of Vélizy, Versailles, and Val de Bièvre, where one of the two large-scale Minitel experiments was conducted.
TDF	Télédiffusion de France. State radio and television monopoly transmission operator after 1974.
Télématique	Information and communication services provided by a computer network. A combination of the words “télécommunications” (“telecommunications”) and “informatique” (“informatics”).
Télétel	The name of the Minitel ecosystem, combining both analog and digital infrastructures as well as terminal and host servers joined (and billed) by a network of gateways.
Teletext	A noninteractive variant of videotex often used to broadcast metadata and news alongside television programming.
Transpac	The nationwide packet-switched network in France operated by the DGT, France Telecom, and Orange from 1979 to 2012 using the X.25 protocol.
Videotex	An interactive system for the transmission and visual display of data combining telephone and television technologies.
Virtual circuit	Preset path between computers where packets all travel on that fixed route.
X.25	Protocol for packet-switched networks providing virtual circuit connections based on the OSI model.