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connecté

English translation: world leader for telecom users

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French term or phrase:pays le plus connecté au monde
English translation: world leader for telecom users
Entered by: Yolanda Broad

10:59 Sep 5, 2003
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Internet, e-Commerce / Republic of Korea
French term or phrase: connecté
...Corée du Sud, ***le pays le plus connecté au monde***. Avec plus de 70 % de la population équipée d'un téléphone mobile et connecté à l'Internet à très hauts débits, la Corée du Sud fait aujourd'hui figure de championne dans le monde des technologies. Son avance technologique n'est pas sans conséquence sur la vie démocratique...


From my Google research, it appears that the Republic of Korea is the country with the largest number of high-speed mobile Internet users in the world (and the highest broadband penetration in the world). However, when they say 'connecté' here, what exactly do they mean? Are they referring to the above or more than that? I don't imagine they are the top in the league tables when it comes to the total number of Internet users. Or is that what they are inferring?

Many thanks in advance for any idea!

Sheila
Sheila Hardie
Spain
Local time: 05:26
south Korea, the world leader for telecom users
Explanation:
The meaning of the text is clear enough and you've got it. I would suggest this translation. Indeed, users of mobile phones and the internet are telecom users, aren't they?
Of course, you loose the image "connecté" in the first part or your text, but I think it doesn't matter since the following sentence fully explicitate the first.
Cheers
Laure
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laure claesen (X)
Local time: 05:26
Grading comment
In the end, the client wanted to use 'the highest broadband penetration', but if it hadn't been for that, I would have chosen this or the other answer with 'telecom users'. Many thanks to all of you for your answers! Sheila
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +2connected
nothing
5 +1the mots "plugged in" country in the world
David Fay
5South Korea, the country with the highest concentration of telecom users
Transflux (X)
4Internet-penetrated
Yakov Tomara
4south Korea, the world leader for telecom users
laure claesen (X)
4the most wired up country in the world
CMJ_Trans (X)
4the most "switched on" country in the world
Rebecca Lowery
3on-line
TTWeb


  

Answers


7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
connecté (in this context)
Internet-penetrated


Explanation:
an option


    Reference: http://www.waller.co.uk/web.htm
Yakov Tomara
Local time: 06:26
Works in field
Native speaker of: Russian
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
connected


Explanation:
Of course, it is not the country with the highest number of internet users, but, as a percentage of the total population, 70% sounds pretty high

nothing
Local time: 04:26
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Roddy Stegemann: As a percentage of the population, it is the highest in the world and therefore the most connected!
22 mins
agree  Pascale Dahan
20 hrs
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
the mots "plugged in" country in the world


Explanation:
I would have used "branché" here, but this is what I found...

Domaine(s) : - informatique
Internet


français


branché sur Internet adj.
Équivalent(s) English plugged in to the Internet



Définition :
Se dit d'un utilisateur qui a accès à volonté au réseau Internet.


Sous-entrée(s) :
synonyme(s)
branché adj.

quasi-synonyme(s)
connecté à Internet adj.

Note(s) :
En français, on utilise la préposition « sur » après le verbe « brancher ».
Même si on trouve parfois l'expression « se connecter à Internet » (et non pas « sur » Internet) dans le sens de « se brancher sur Internet », le terme « connecter » a un sens plus technique et fait référence davantage à la connexion physique au réseau.
Par glissement de sens, on dit de l'utilisateur qu'il est « branché sur Internet », même lorsqu'il n'est pas en communication avec le réseau.






David Fay
Local time: 23:26
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rowan Morrell: "Plugged in" is quite nice.
1 min
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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
south Korea, the world leader for telecom users


Explanation:
The meaning of the text is clear enough and you've got it. I would suggest this translation. Indeed, users of mobile phones and the internet are telecom users, aren't they?
Of course, you loose the image "connecté" in the first part or your text, but I think it doesn't matter since the following sentence fully explicitate the first.
Cheers
Laure

laure claesen (X)
Local time: 05:26
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 3
Grading comment
In the end, the client wanted to use 'the highest broadband penetration', but if it hadn't been for that, I would have chosen this or the other answer with 'telecom users'. Many thanks to all of you for your answers! Sheila
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46 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
the most wired up country in the world


Explanation:
another 'fun' suggestion

CMJ_Trans (X)
Local time: 05:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
on-line


Explanation:
Not brilliant, but mobile phone users are certainly neither wired nor plugged in - they are wireless. But you can be "on the line" for a telephone and "on-line" for internet. The French have a word for it!

TTWeb
France
Local time: 05:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
the most "switched on" country in the world


Explanation:
In English this can mean the obvious (i.e. that your mobile or computer is switched on) and it can mean that they're "with it" (kind of up to date)

Rebecca Lowery
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
South Korea, the country with the highest concentration of telecom users


Explanation:
IHT: Hanaro shareholders reject LG Group share plan
... SEOUL Shareholders of Hanaro Telecom, South Korea's second-biggest ... has the world's
highest concentration of broadband ... group." LG, the country's second-largest ...
www.iht.com/articles/105290.htm - 12k - 4 Sep 2003

Transflux (X)
Local time: 05:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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