To the potential delight of wireless operators, a new report from ComScore shows that a significantly higher percentage of iPhone users in the United States and United Kingdom rely on their device’s Wi-Fi capabilities than customers with Android-powered smartphones. This would be positive news...
Sprint Nextel (S) expanded its machine-to-machine efforts globally announcing a partnership with France Telecom’s Orange Business Services division in a deal that it claims will enhance its reach to more than 180 countries. The deal also blurs the line between Sprint Nextel’s domestic CDMA-based...
China Telecom (CHA) is set to spread its wings into the U.K. market striking a deal with the T-Mobile/Orange venture Everything Everywhere to offer services. The service, which is expected to launch during the first quarter, was struck between China Telecom’s European subsidiary and...
French regulatory body ARCEP said it has received four bids for 800 MHz spectrum licenses as a follow up to 2.6 GHz spectrum licenses issued earlier this year. The spectrum licenses are expected to be used by operators to roll out LTE-based 4G services.
The...
France Telecom - Orange | August 25, 2011 | Press Release
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France Telecom - Orange | August 29, 2011 | Press Release
Orange Business Services will increase the capacity of its Latin American network by ten times due to growing demand from its multinational enterprise customers. Implementation will begin in October 2011, covering Brazil and Chile,...
France Telecom - Orange | August 17, 2011 | Press Release
France Telecom announces having purchased treasury shares within the framework of its 2011 share buy back program.
View the full press release via Orange
Orange | August 9, 2011 | Press Release
Orange Travel: real time info on rates and spending abroad
Orange Travel lets Orange France’s customers check how much they’ve spent using their smartphone to talk, text and surf when they’re travelling abroad. As soon as they cross...
Orange | July 28, 2011 | Press Release
7.0% increase in customer numbers on a comparable basis, led by a 23% rise in mobile services in Africa and the Middle East, with total Group customers of 217.3 million at 30 June 2011
consolidated revenues rose 0.3%...
Orange | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Orange and Google today announced a strategic partnership that will leverage Orange’s SMS platform to bring Google’s services to African customers. This agreement marks an important step forward that will facilitate access to the growing mobile internet...
Orange | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Benoit Scheen, currently Chief Executive Officer of Mobistar in Belgium, has been appointed Executive Vice President of Europe (excluding France) of France Telecom-Orange as from 1 September 2011. In this role, he will be directly responsible for...
Orange | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Marc Blanchet has been named Director of Enterprise France, effective 1 October 2011. His mission will be to improve customer satisfaction, increase revenues and sell convergent and IT offers on markets under his responsibility.
The Enterprise France Department...
Orange | July 26, 2011 | Press Release
BNP Paribas and Orange have formed a partnership and signed a trademark licence agreement to launch innovative mobile banking services in November 2011.
This strategic business partnership allows the groups to share expertise in their respective areas of...
Orange and Google announced a strategic partnership that will leverage Orange's SMS platform to bring Google's services to African customers. This agreement will facilitate access to the growing mobile internet market in Africa. Through the development of SMS-based services that operate on all mobile...
Upstream, mobile marketing technology and solutions provider, has brought in former Microsoft Partner and General Manager, Simon Negus, as Chief Operating Officer. Negus joins Upstream from Microsoft UK where he served as a Microsoft Partner and UK Board member. Read more.Vibes, a mobile marketing...
France Telecom - Orange | July 21, 2011 | Press Release
Laurent Biojoux was appointed Customer Relations Director of Orange France, effective 18 July 2011.
Orange France combines the operational activities of France Telecom Orange on French soil. With almost 80,000 employees, including 40,000 employees who...
France Telecom - Orange | July 21, 2011 | Press Release
France Telecom-Orange has published its third party-operator access offer for its FTTH fiber-optic network outside very-dense areas, and has signed an agreement with Free (Iliad Group) concerning fiber deployment in these areas that is...
France Telecom - Orange | July 19, 2011 | Press Release
Orange is inviting web-users to keep up with its news in real time on its new Orange timeline platform, which goes live today at: http://timeline.orange.com.
Orange is the first large group to aggregate all of...
Bloomberg | July 18, 2011 | Matthew Campbell, Michael Kavanagh
France Telecom SA (FTE) may make the Democratic Republic of Congo its next target for African expansion after entering exclusive talks with China’s ZTE Corp. to purchase a majority stake in Congo China Telecom, the...
BBC News | July 18, 2011
The boss of Everything Everywhere, the parent group of UK mobile phone networks Orange and T-Mobile, is standing down for "personal reasons".
Read the full article here via BBC News
Everything Everywhere Ltd announced the appointment of Olaf Swantee as Chief Executive Officer. He will replace Tom Alexander who has resigned for personal reasons and to pursue other interests. Tom will step down from his post as CEO on 31st August 2011, but will...
France Telecom - Orange | July 12, 2011 | Press Release
With social networks and multi-screen functions now part of everyday life, you no longer want to wait until the following day before you can talk about and comment on the TV shows you watch....
Cable.co.uk | July 11, 2011
The network operator will offer an Orange portal on Smart TVs sold across Europe.
Orange has signed a Europe-wide partnership agreement with Samsung that will see the network operator deliver content for the manufacturer's Smart TVs.
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Read full article here via Cable.co.uk
France Telecom - Orange | July 11, 2011 | Press Release
Samsung and Orange signed July 6th 2011 a European partnership agreement to provide an Orange content and services portal for Samsung Smart TVs.
The portal will be available in France in the coming weeks on...
