Staten træffer desuden de foranstaltninger, der måtte være nødvendige for at sikre selskabet mod enhver form for finansieringsvanskeligheder...«. (52) Samme dag ændrede bureauet Moody's sin rating af FT's gæld fra negativ til stabil som følge af dette tilsagn om støtte til FT.
In the HSBC report, it is stated that: ‘Assuming a business plan which incorporates the operational improvement in the TOP programme, we consider that France Télécom has a refinancing requirement over the period 2002-07 of approximately €22 billion ... [On the other hand], assuming a business plan which does not incorporate the operational improvement in the TOP programme, we estimate that France Télécom has a refinancing requirement over the period 2002-07 of approximately €35 billion’.