All Orange articles
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Finance & StrategyOrange Spain holds nerve to retain value-over-volume focus
Orange resists pressure to chase aggressive rivals on price, betting that convergence, lower churn, and a broad brand portfolio can support an improved service revenue trajectory.
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OperationsAgentic AI forces telcos to rethink data, skills, network operations
Orange, Vodafone, and Telenor execs consider AI’s toughest challenge to be capturing human expertise, organisational context, and the guardrails needed to let agents acts safely.
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Technology & ITOrange tests D2D appetite as Europe eyes satellite sovereignty
Orange is using its first commercial direct-to-device offering to test customer appetite rather than chase mass adoption, while trials with AST SpaceMobile and the battle over European MSS spectrum point towards a broader satellite strategy built around multiple technologies and partners.
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Finance & StrategyOrange CEO still confident on SFR timeline despite workforce discontent
SFR unions are challenging the takeover process and warning over thousands of potential job losses, but Orange is sticking to its plan. Q3’s record customer additions and stronger guidance give Christel Heydemann reasons for optimism elsewhere.
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Analyst BriefingTelefónicawatch: Operators link up on European defence
Analyst Briefing: Spanish incumbent forms tie-ups with European peers DT, Orange, Vodafone, and NOS as it seeks to cement its industrial credentials and gain a leading role in sovereign regional satcomms and defencetech. Also in focus are MVNO partnerships, AI and APIs, and fibre M&A.
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OperationsDT boss says ‘shit MVNOs’ are most at risk in era of AI buying
Deep dive: Transatlantic group’s execs say transparency and communications will be key as they ponder disruptive power of AI assistants as analysers and buyers of broadband, mobile and TV retail services — and claim smaller discounters will be at most disadvantage.
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NetworkOrange puts AI-RAN through its paces as NVIDIA, Nokia hail momentum
Orange’s AI-RAN scepticism is giving way to live network experimentation, with the operator testing whether spectrum efficiencies and shared edge compute can justify deployment. NVIDIA and Nokia now count nearly 20 telcos among their AI-RAN collaborators, with BT, DT, and Elisa among those advancing the tech towards commercialisation.
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M&AOnivia faces further ownership changes as it resets Orange ties — reports
Spanish fibre wholesaler may be heading for a shareholder reshuffle as founding investor Macquarie readies for exit, as Onivia reworks its Orange relationship.
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NetworkNokia opens the door as Europe arrives at NVIDIA’s AI-RAN party
NVIDIA’s alignment with Nokia shows through via a deluge of telco link-ups. BT, Deutsche Telekom, Elisa and Orange are progressing AI-RAN while peers simultaneously build the distributed compute and agentic software layers needed to support new services.
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NetworkOpenreach fibre sensing nears ‘material scale’
Openreach closing in on commercial fibre sensing, seeking to turn its huge vast estate into a distributed monitoring network capable of spotting water and gas leaks, and potentially opening a new revenue stream from existing infrastructure. European peers follow suit…
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OperationsTech Mahindra completes large-scale takeover of Orange B2B teams
Indian services giant indicates major new outsourcing and tech development relationship with Orange Business is now up and running, boosting top line and headcount.
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NetworkEuropean telco giants step up united front against US satco threat
Telekom, Telefónica, Orange, and Vodafone are preparing a collective grab for satellite spectrum as operators and policymakers confront the prospect of Starlink and other non-EU players disrupting the market.
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Network6G: European telco leaders lay down migration markers
In depth: Deutsche Telekom, Orange, and Vodafone set out their conditions for 6G at Network X, mapping how Europe’s leading operators are converging on a pragmatic vision to protect 5G investments, minimise hardware disruption and making economics drive migration, albeit with differences remaining over spectrum sharing, core architecture, and timing…
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EventwatchFrance’s Scaleway bulks up to meet demand for sovereign AI
Iliad is scaling up its European AI ambitions through Scaleway, adding cloud and GPU capacity as demand for sovereign infrastructure grows. New enterprise wins suggest the investment is also starting to strengthen the Group’s B2B proposition.
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PeoplewatchOrange Peoplewatch: Group crowns cloud platform lead
October 2026 edition: 25+ senior and strategic leadership changes at Orange, including Adrienne Jan taking the top spot at new Unified Cloud Platform, a B2B leadership revamp at Orange Belgium, and a new enterprise chief in Poland…
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InfraOrange advances European ‘AI highways’ with subsea cable expansion
Orange is expanding its subsea footprint once again, backing the Pisces cable project linking Ireland with France, Spain, and Portugal as the operator deepens its push to build the connectivity foundations of Europe’s sovereign AI ambitions.
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NetworkOrange’s Alok Srivastava advises against big bang shift to 6G
Orange believes the path to 6G should be evolutionary rather than revolutionary, where operators must maximise existing 5G investments, develop new revenue streams, and avoid a costly migration unless compelling customer use cases emerge.
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Finance & StrategyTelia trims headcount as Europe leans on efficiency
Telia becomes the latest European telco to announce a round of job cuts, joining a trend of operators reshape workforces, decentralise decision-making, and seek higher returns from maturing fibre and 5G investments.
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Analyst BriefingOrangewatch: Is Orange in M&A talks in Africa?
Analyst Briefing: reports of a potential Ghana expansion, full integration of the Spanish operation, and the wait for French consolidation goes on. Plus more from Orange Business, and across the Europe and Africa footprint…
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B2BOrange Business gains second SecNumCloud visa for AI focused cloud offering
Orange Business has secured a second SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification, strengthening its position in France’s rapidly evolving sovereign cloud market just as trusted cloud requirements become increasingly embedded in law.