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.
Nordnet, the satellite broadband business owned by Orange, has officially launched its satellite broadband service in France.
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 has finally announced the creation of an independent European towers company but the new business will have fewer assets than we might have expected.
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 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.
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.
French MNOs Orange and Free Mobile have been chatting about forming a network sharing agreement, but it came to nothing.
Laure de la Raudière is officially the new chair of French telecoms regulator Arcep.
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.
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