Orange will turn off 2G and 3G in Europe by 2030
By the end of 2030, Orange will have phased out its 2G and 3G networks in Europe, making way for network upgrading and spectrum reframing, which will enable more sophisticated 4G and 5G services.
With operations in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain, the Paris-base... Read more
Orange Belgium activates 5G in Antwerp, rest of Belgium to follow
Orange Belgium activated 5G in Antwerp. Orange customers with a compatible subscription and device have 5G access starting today. 5G will "shortly" be deployed in Ghent, Bruges, Leuven and several coastal cities.
Orange Belgium is operating on a temporary license. Belgium's 5G frequencies have y... Read more
Orange invests in Move Capital I to boost EU B2B tech companies
Orange Business Services (OBS) and Move Capital have a common goal; to assist, support, and fund French and European tech companies in the B2B space. The investment in Move Capital I by OBS aims to facilitate the development, emergence, and sustainability of European tech sovereignty, a hot topic t... Read more
Europe launches programme for 6G Research and Innovation
Nokia, Ericsson, Atos, Intel, Orange, Siemens, TIM and Telefonica are all supporting the initiative.
This week the European Commission announced that the newly created Joint Undertaking on Smart Networks and Services towards 6G (SNS JU) adopted its first Work Programme 2021-2022. The programme h... Read more
Two big European mobile network operators discuss potential merger
Vodafone and Orange were talking about a potential merger without reaching an agreement. The merger can still happen.
French opposition
French authorities aren’t in favor of a proposed merger between Vodafone and Orange, Europe’s largest mobile provider. The companies had been in talks a... Read more
Orange moves to enhance mobile tech capabilities across Europe
The operator has launched a new Tower Company to leverage mobile infrastructure EU-wide.
Orange has announced new business capabilities which have enabled it to strengthen its presence as a leading telecommunications company in Europe. The tech giant has launched TOTEM, its European TowerCo.
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Orange announces 5G SA experimental cloud network
The project will be Europe's first 5G Stand Alone (SA) fully end-to-end cloud network.
European telco Orange announced this week that it will launch an experimental 5G network using a cloud-based open platform and artificial intelligence. The announcement comes as the EU telecom industry rushes ... Read more
Orange Business Services and Cisco are working on next generation SD-LAN
Orange Business Services and Cisco have started a partnership to develop SD-LAN solutions in the Open Labs program. With the solutions, the two companies want to help customers transform their local area network (LAN) to a more flexible and powerful software defined LAN (SD-LAN).
The solutions of O... Read more
Orange Business Services enhances Visibility-as-a-Service for end-user experience
Orange Business Services has improved its Visibility-as-a-Service (VaaS). The improvement should help companies to remove the guesswork from the end-to-end application performance measurement.
The VaaS solution is based on Riverbed's SteelCentral Aternity-technology. This makes it possible to carry... Read more
Orange Business Services sees industry collaboration as key to 5G
Orange Business Services notes that with the arrival of
5G as a new mobile connectivity technology, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is
really coming to fruition. The 'Internet of Enterprises' is very important for
this, as was shown during a recent business event of parent company Orange
where Tec... Read more