BROWSING: France Telecom

U.K.-based joint venture Everything Everywhere, a combination of France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile operations, turned on LTE services in a handful of markets this week for testing purposes on its way to launching commercial services later this year. The carrier said initial...

United Kingdom regulatory body Ofcom today approved Everything Everywhere’s request to use its existing 1.8 GHz spectrum holdings to offer LTE or WiMAX services. That spectrum band was initially required to house GSM-based 2G and 3G services. In its decision, Ofcom noted that by...

The rollout of LTE services in Europe has been a deliberate process, with only a handful of innovative operators having launched services in select market. This latency in LTE deployments has been partially blamed on spectrum constraints as many countries have only just recently...

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...

France Telecom - Orange | August 25, 2011 | Press Release everyday care and advice for Origami customers A personalised report every six months helps customers make the most of their Origami call plans A new school, a new job, a new city… Change something in your...

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...

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

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....

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...

Telia Sonera | July 7, 2011 | Press Release TeliaSonera has signed the cooperation agreement with France Telecom-Orange and Deutsche Telekom to increase the quality of service and interoperability for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The agreement, which initially was signed by France Telecom-Orange...

Deutsche Telekom (DTEGY) is taking its machine-to-machine communications strategy seriously. So much so, that the German-based operator just inked an agreement with TeliaSonera (TLSNF) to extend global M2M roaming capabilities to Sweden,  Norway, Finland, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania. DT signed a deal with France...

Spain kicked off the auction of 58 wireless spectrum licenses in the 800 MHz, 900 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum bands that published reports indicated could raise nearly $3 billion for the country.The auction, which is expected to take around two weeks, counts 11...