Orange’s Trabbia stresses importance of diversity in D2D partnerships
Anne Morris2026-03-18T18:00:00
Orange was one of a number of telcos to announce a direct‑to‑device (D2D) collaboration with a satellite provider on the first day of Mobile World Congress, as it steps up efforts to provide connectivity to “every customer, everywhere, all the time”.
This article includes:
- Organisations: Altice France; Bouygues Telecom; Cellnex; Deutsche Telekom; Eutelsat; Orange; Orange Group; Orange Wholesale; SpaceMobile; SpaceX; Starlink.
- Geographic: Europe; France.
- People: Arnaud Vamparys; Christel Heydemann; Laurent Leboucher; Michaël Trabbia; Philippe Ensarguet.
- Themes: 5G; Broadband; satellite; Cloud; Constellations; Content delivery networks; Fibre; Infrastructure; LEO; Mobile World Congress; Network; Submarine cables; Subsea cables; Telco cloud; Telco-as-a-service; Telco-as-a-service (TaaS); Terrestrial fibre backbone; Terrestrial infrastructure; Terrestrial lines; Terrestrial network; Threat landscape; Towers; Trusted provider of global connectivity; Trusted services; User cockpit; Wireless infra provider.
- Events: Mobile World Congress