Earlier this autumn, the veteran telecom boss resisted calls for his resignation. His new number two, Stephane Richard, due to take full control of the group when Mr Lombard steps down in 2011, was put in charge of domestic operations with the mission of sorting out the company's acute internal social difficulties. But all these pressures and uncomfortable distractions do not seem to have prevented Mr Lombard from keeping at least one eye firmly on the competitive challenge of maintaining France Telecom's position in the leading pack of European operators.
今年秋季早些時候，經驗豐富的洛巴德抵制住了讓他下臺的呼聲。新當選的二把手斯特凡?理查德(Stephane Richard)負責法國國內業務，同時擔負著應對公司嚴重的國內社會形象困境的使命。理查德將于2011年洛巴德退休后，全面接管該集團。但所有這些壓力以及令人不安的煩心事，似乎并未妨礙洛巴德密切關注法國電信所面臨的競爭挑戰，以保持自己在歐洲運營商中的領先地位。
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