Orange

The four markets represent 10% to 12% of Bharti Airtel’s subscribers in Africa Orange and Bharti Airtel have entered into an exclusive agreement to explore the possible acquisition by Orange …

Telecom regulator ARCEP expects to award the spectrum by year end France formally launched plans toward auctioning 700 MHz spectrum band licenses, according to local press. Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron …

The Serbian government has launched an initiative to privatize state-controlled telecommunications company Telekom Srbija. According to local reports, the government asked the Ministry of Economy and the Privatization Agency to …

The French government affirmed the potential acquisition would affect investment in the mobile market and planned spectrum auction France’s second-largest telecommunications operator Numericable-SFR has made an offer to buy smaller …

In an effort to reallocate spectrum, many carriers are setting target dates to do away with GSM networks. It appears that 2017 will be the year that GSM will take its place in …

Between 2006 and 2013, telecom investment by seven major European operators, including such giants as Orange, Deutsche Telecom and Vodafone, fell 5%. In contrast, the four U.S. operators – AT&T, Verizon …

Ubiqube touts telecom focus in dealing with NFV, SDN requirements European-based network and security orchestration software vendor Ubiqube recently announced it is working with French operator Orange on a pilot …

Vivendi reportedly eyeing Sky TV After offloading two telecom units, French multinational media company Vivendi is now looking to pick up video and TV assets. Vivendi this week entered into …

C-RAN, fronthaul and HetNets Senza Fili’s new report “Charting the path to RAN virtualization: C-RAN, fronthaul and HetNets” discusses the market trends, operator requirements and technology opportunities driving the transition to …

Download the complete report featuring Fujitsu, ASOCS, SOLiD, Telefonica, Airvana, Radisys, SoftBank, Oi and Orange. Senza Fili’s new report “Charting the path to RAN virtualization: C-RAN, fronthaul and HetNets” discusses the …

A conversation with Philippe Chanclou, team manager Orange Labs Download a transcript of the complete interview now and be among the first to receive the complete report when finalized. Philippe …

Leaders of Hong Kong-baed Hutchison Whampoa and France’s Orange each indicated that their companies will be looking for mergers and acquisitions in Europe in the near future. The South China Morning Post …

Vodafone UK boss says customers don’t know what 4G is Vodafone UK may come in second to EE when it comes to 4G network speeds, but according to CEO Jeroen …

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as …

After looking into buying Telefonica’s O2, BT announced it has entered into exclusive talks to buy mobile operator EE for $19.6 billion. If successful, the deal would combine the U.K.’s largest fixed-line provider with …

British Telecommunications in preliminary talks to buy EE Deutsche Telekom and Orange may be considering selling consumer network EE to BT. EE is the largest mobile operator in the United Kingdom. …

U.K. mobile operator EE plans to make some structural changes, including cutting 350 administrative jobs and adding other employees in sales and customer support. The company told Bloomberg that the structural …

Despite economic troubles and the impact of conflicts in neighboring Iraq and Syria, Jordan has one of the most competitive mobile markets in the Middle East. And this competition has led …

Last week I mentioned the Orange-Tesla partnership announcement and since then have had the opportunity to discuss in more depth with Samuel Loyson, Orange Business Services Head of Connected Car …

Editor’s Note: Wireless industry trade group GSMA and its GSMA Intelligence division recently released its rankings of the world’s 30 largest mobile operators based on an equal weighting of total connections …

French telecom operator Orange showed more signs of stabilizing when it released results for the first half of 2014 . To keep its momentum, the telecom upped its cost cutting …

Vodafone selected Alcatel-Lucent as a “supplier of reference” for small cell and Wi-Fi technology as part of its Project Spring investment program. Through Project Spring, Vodafone plans to spend about …

The European Union’s new caps on mobile phone roaming charges began July 1, cutting data rates for users traveling to other EU countries by more than 50%. The data roaming …

NICE, France – Digital health is certainly one of the hottest topics in the wireless industry, but many questions remain as to how the mobile operators can play in this …