Orange has created a new business unit to house its fibre operations in rural France and has agreed to sell half of that entity to investors in a deal that should raise well over €1 billion.
The French government will support fibre rollout in nearly a dozen tricky areas of the country to the tune of €420 million, it announced this week.
Bouygues Telecom wants to be France’s second-largest mobile operator by 2026.
Orange has spun off its investment fund arm into a separate legal entity renamed as Orange Ventures with €350 million worth of start-up investments.
Orange is ploughing more money into its nascent banking operations in Europe, this time by acquiring small business focused neobank Anytime.
French president Emmanuel Macron has named Laure de la Raudière as his choice to lead the country’s telecoms regulator and not everyone is happy about it.
French challenger brand Free Mobile has followed Bouygues, Orange and SFR by launching 5G, repeating its usual trick of arriving last, but offering access at no extra cost.
Dividends, an employee shareholding scheme and improvements in networks and IT. These are just some of the items on Orange’s shopping list after it received a whopping €2.2 billion tax refund.
French operator Bouygues has pipped Orange at the post, launching 5G just days before the incumbent.
French telco group Orange has revealed the launch-day locations of its 5G network, which it will switch on next Thursday.
France’s digital secretary has expanded his government’s mobile emissions testing programme, amid lingering hysteria over 5G signals.
France’s auction of mid-band spectrum for 5G services ended almost before it had begun this week, with all four operators acquiring similar amounts of spectrum for broadly sensible prices.
France this week unveiled a €100 billion post-Covid-19 stimulus plan that includes a quarter-of-a-billion-euro shot in the arm for rural fibre networks.
Bouygues Telecom has published a solid set of numbers for the first half of the year and claims its customer growth has accelerated in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown.
A report has claimed that the French cyber-security authority has told operators it won’t renew the licenses for any Huawei kit they buy once they expire.
Following the launch of a Section 301 Investigation last year, the US Trade Representative has announced 25% tariffs on certain French products, starting January 6, 2021.
In an interview with local press, the Director General of the national security agency has said there would not be an outright ban for Chinese telecoms equipment vendor Huawei.
French police managed to penetrate a super-secure smartphone platform and catch loads of baddies, but what does this mean for the rest of us?
Finnish kit vendor Nokia is going to cut 1,233 jobs at its Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary in France as part of its continued search for profitability.
With a new CTIO, Head of Europe, CEOs for Belgium and Spain and leader for the Engage2025 strategy, there are plenty of new faces in the Orange executive management team.
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