Free Mobile turns 10 but has yet to hit market share target
Free Mobile is celebrating its tenth birthday, but while it has undoubtedly changed the face of the French mobile sector in the past decade, it has yet to hit its core market share target.
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Orange CEO steps down after French appeals court ruling
Stéphane Richard, who has been Chairman and CEO of French operator group Orange for almost a decade, has been forced to throw in the towel by a recent court ruling.
Orange unveils its very own OpenRAN lab
French operator group Orange is the latest telco to open a facility devoted to working out whether OpenRAN is a waste of time or not.
Orange launches its towerco, stressing how independent it is
French operator group Orange has placed its passive infrastructure assets into a new company called Totem so it can flog access to other telcos.
Orange hooks up Chinese subsea cable in Marseille
The latest subsea cable designed to ease capacity constraints in East Africa has landed in Marseille, according to Orange, which will operate the landing station in the French city.
Eutelsat rejects takeover bid from Altice owner
Eutelsat has turned down a takeover offer from French businessman Patrick Drahi, probably because his bid was not large enough to warrant further discussion.
Paris transport firm wins €500m fibre deal
The operator of public transport in Paris has netted a contract worth €500 million to roll out and run fibre in and around the French capital.
Eurobites: Telecom Italia sees earnings slide 5.8% in Q2
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Arcep consults on 5G interference; Vodafone ads rapped; Spotify hits bum note on MAUs.
Orange assembles magnificent seven for fully automated network trial
French operator group Orange got some of its mates together to build what it claims is Europe’s first 5G SA fully end-to-end experimental cloud network.
Orange invests €30 million in worthy start-ups
Orange Ventures has set up a new investment vehicle to back what could probably best be described as ‘worthy cause’ start-ups, giving it €30 million of funding to dole out.
French rail operator latest to get into fibre
French rail network operator SNCF has officially launched a new subsidiary that will see it break into the market for wholesale fibre connectivity.
Altice buys half a French MVNO
Altice France plans to acquire Afone Participations, a provider of telecoms and electronic payments services that holds a 50% stake in a medium-sized MVNO.
Orange mulls buying back infrastructure assets to boost TOTEM
Orange is reportedly considering buying back an infrastructure asset it sold almost two decades ago to boost its recently-created TOTEM towers business.
Orange launches affordable satellite broadband service in France
Nordnet, the satellite broadband business owned by Orange, has officially launched its satellite broadband service in France.
Altice slashes French jobs as it feels investment pinch
The Covid-19 pandemic has increased demand for telecoms services so, counterintuitively, Altice France plans to cut as much as 11% of its workforce this year.
Orange’s TOTEM smaller than expected
Orange has finally announced the creation of an independent European towers company but the new business will have fewer assets than we might have expected.
France wants more power to censor social media
As the EU works to refine its massive Digital Services Act, France is publicly lobbying for greater national censorship powers and for more content to be made illegal.
Cellnex pays way more for French towers than KKR did two years ago
Cellnex is at it again. The Spanish infrastructure specialist has brokered a €5.2 billion deal to acquire Altice’s French towers portfolio which it plans to finance via a sizeable capital hike.
French football rights failure suggests content clamour could be cooling
France’s football governing body has failed to sell off a premium packages of content rights to top-flight games, not due to lack of interest, but because the interested parties declined to meet its reserve price.
Orange and Free fail to agree on network sharing
French MNOs Orange and Free Mobile have been chatting about forming a network sharing agreement, but it came to nothing.
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