South African mobile networks refuse to be drawn into discussing the prospect of French telecommunications giant Orange entering country. This follows comments by Orange CEO Stéphane Richard, who was speaking to French newspaper Les Echos. “It could make sense for Orange to have a larger African geographic base than today and to be present in the large...
Still looking for growth in Africa, the Orange Group has reaffirmed its interest in Ethiopia’s telecoms market, which is widely considered to be the last major market in the world to open up. The call for expression of interest (EOI) issued by the Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) at the end of May elapsed on Tuesday...
Orange believes it would benefit from having a wider footprint in Africa and will give itself a few months to make a possible move, CEO Stephane Richard told Les Echos. Richard declined to comment on a possible interest in South Africa’s MTN Group. He said it could make sense to be in economies such as...
Orange Botswana has announced the launch of LTE-A services, increasing data transfer rates on its 4G network. The upgrades, which are being branded 4G+, have so far reached parts of Greater Gaborone and Francistown and will eventually cover much of the country, the operator said. As part of the launch Orange has also lowered the prices...
France’s largest telecom group Orange is considering entering the South African and Nigerian markets, according to its CEO.
Orange maintained growth in the first quarter, saying it’s yet to see a major impact on results from the Covid-19 pandemic. The operator grew sales 1.0 percent on a like-for-like basis to EUR 10.4 billion and increased EBITDAal by 0.5 percent on the same basis to EUR 2.6 billion. The company maintained its full-year outlook...
In response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the mobile network service provider Orange has reduced prices of its products and services in Cameroon. At the time of going to print, Cameroon had registered 56 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, as of the 23rd of March 2020, according to Dr Manaouda Malachie, the country’s Minister of...
Orange Morocco has announced the launch of Orange Money in the kingdom, having secured approval from the Bank Al Maghrib, the North African country’s central bank. Morocco becomes the 18th country within the MEA region to offer the solution and means locals can make mobile payments and transfer money using their phones. Orange’s value proposition...
The National Telecommunications Company (Sonatel) of Senegal, a subsidiary of the French telecoms group Orange, recorded revenue of 1,086.6 billion FCFA in 2019, up by 64.6 billion FCFA compared to to 2018. Despite a tense business environment in these different markets – political and economic crisis in Bissau, precarious security context in northern Mali, political...
The mobile operator Orange has announced the adoption of the O3b mPOWER, the next generation medium-orbit (MEO) satellite communication system from the satellite telecom service provider SES. Through this solution, which will provide several terabits of speed to stimulate digital transformation and the adoption of the cloud, which will be operational in 2022, the French...
