All Orange articles – Page 16
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M&ACellnex flexes M&A muscle for Spanish tower consolidation
Cellnex has the urge to merge in Spain after flurry of telco M&A has left too many TowerCos chasing too few mobile network operators.
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NetworkMásOrange CEO wants Spain to make spectrum fee cut
Meinrad Spenger proposes changes after charges reportedly led to joint venture’s failure to find a buyer for surplus 3.5GHz rights.
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NetworkTowerCos, MNOs co-pilot Franco-German 5G highway project
A consortium of TowerCos and mobile network operators is to build continuous 5G coverage along main motorway linking France and Germany in latest EU-funded project.
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Analyst BriefingVodafonewatch Weekly: partners in place for DRC, India network expansion
Latest from Vodafone, including launch of new Vodacom–Orange towers JV in the DRC; network automation deal ahead of Vi’s 5G switch-on; gov-funded contracts secured in the UK; more…
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Analyst BriefingTelefónicawatch Briefing: Spain’s flip to fibre phase two
Reports highlight how Spanish telco and infra players, having established lead on push from copper to fibre, are now looking to iron out footprint imbalances across urban and rural areas. Read more…
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NetworkPortugal, Sweden, and Spain lead race towards copper retirement
New Copper Switch‑Off Tracker names and shames markets that are dragging their feet on legacy network closures ahead of European Commission’s 2030 target date.
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NetworkSpain’s fibre foundations need a fix-up
Market seen in self-adjustment mode to smooth out overlaps between FibreCo estates while also filling gap between urban and rural FTTH coverage.
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NetworkVodacom, Orange target rural 4G in DRC tower tie-up
Pair announce TowerCo joint venture with rural Democratic Republic of Congo communities in mind.
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Analyst BriefingDeutsche Telekomwatch Briefing: API New Year, T-Wholesale reorg, BNetzA puzzler
Group flags first of its traditional start-of-year organisational tweaks with news it is to consolidate its domestic and international wholesale divisions. Meanwhile, the exec tasked with setting up telco platform venture Aduna is named. Read more…
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Analyst BriefingOrangewatch Weekly: New venture unfolds on Spanish fibre market
Latest from Orange, including: MásOrange and Vodafone Spain finally sign binding contract to create “Europe’s largest FibreCo”; Spanish price hikes; Slovakia nears 5G SA launch; copper in France…
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NetworkEricsson christens telco API venture ‘Aduna’, installs CEO
Vonage exec Anthony Bartolo appointed CEO of Aduna, the Ericsson-led network API joint venture.
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NetworkOrange moves to cash in on decommissioned copper
French operator is reportedly seeking a value assessment of the copper in its legacy network as it works towards switching off the public switched telephone network by 2030.
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NetworkOrange pencils in Slovakia for next 5G standalone launch
Orange Slovakia is said to be next in line for 5G SA after Belgium, France, and Spain.
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NetworkMásOrange and Vodafone Spain confirm deal to create ‘Europe’s largest FibreCo’
Rework of consolidated Spanish telco market continues, seeing MásOrange and Vodafone Spain follow up their 2024 M&A deals by combining fibre assets.
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Consumer (B2C)Spain’s big three kick off 2025 with bold price hikes despite discount challenge from Digi et al
MásOrange, Telefónica España, and Vodafone Spain ring in the new year with price rises, emboldened by market consolidation, in face of aggressive pricing from challengers.
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Strategy & ChangeLiberty gives European B2B services business a new name and mission
Shared services arm rebadged and given mandate to seek expansion in areas such as energy, fintech, and insurance.
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Strategy & Change2024 vendor review: Telcos start feeling benefits of TechCo pivot
2024 may be the year telcos truly started to become TechCos, with GenAI, open RAN and cloud-native platforms reshaping CX, NetOpps and the industry landscape. Dive into how operators are overcoming transformation challenges, collaborating with vendors, and unlocking new revenue opportunities in this game-changing year. Available to all registered users…
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Strategy & ChangeOrange’s Leboucher: Collaboration is key to drive platform play
CTO sets out horizontal ambition at OSS/BSS Summit co-hosted with Ericsson, encompassing autonomous networks, telco cloud-native, slicing, 5G SA, SD-WAN, SASE, IoT, and of course AI and APIs. Read more from this in-depth report…
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Analyst BriefingOrangewatch Weekly: Group takes regulators to task in EU and Spain
Latest from Orange and its ecosystem, including: Christel Heydemann lays out lengths CEOs are prepared to go to bring about regulatory change in Europe; hackles rise in Spain amid proposed local regulatory changes; and Orange-linked infra projects elsewhere are moving ahead…
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NetworkEC finally signs deal to get IRIS² space plan off ground
Contracts belatedly tied up with SpaceRISE consortium, which features Orange and Deutsche Telekom, and will build and operate planned regional satellite network.