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EU plans for LEO constellation

The European Union wants its own Low Earth orbiting mega-constellation of satellites for its citizens, and separate from the offerings from Elon Musk, OneWeb or Canada’s Lightspeed. The EU invited a consortium of industry suppliers to come up with a fast-track LEO scheme and Dominic Hayes, spectrum manager for the EU’s space programme at the […]

May 25, 2021By Chris Forrester

Orange deploys Wiztivi’s cloud gaming solution on mobile device

To support the launch of its 5G offer, Orange has deployed Streamava, Wiztivi’s Cloud Gaming platform, on mobile devices. Since 2012, Streamava has been chosen by Orange as its cloud gaming solution to offer its subscribers the possibility of transforming their television set into a real games console. Thanks to a solid partnership and constant […]

May 18, 2021

Orange Spain to cut 485 staff

Orange Spain is set to cut 485 posts, 15 per cent of its workforce in the country, as a result of a sharp fall in revenues following the negative effects of the pandemic. It is the first round of job cuts at the company since the acquisition of Jazztel in 2016. The company will negotiate […]

May 14, 2021From David Del Valle in Madrid

Acorn TV launches on Spain’s Orange TV

Spain’s Orange TV has added Acorn TV, the streaming service of AMC Networks offering TV series from Britain and other English-speaking countries. Acorn TV offers subscribers of Orange TV a wide range of drama, mystery and comedy series and miniseries from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Canada, in both their Castilian dubbed and […]

May 13, 2021

Orange Spain speeds up 5G deployment

Orange Spain is speeding up the deployment of 5G with coverage of 442 cities, from 38 provinces – using 5G NSA via DSS – covering 28 per cent of the Spanish population. The company plans to reach a 90 per cent coverage in 2022 and is getting ready for the forthcoming 700 MHz public auction […]

May 5, 2021From David Del Valle in Madrid

Orange boosted by Africa & Middle East business

Orange group revenues were up 0.5 per cent to 10.3 billion in Q1 2021 thanks to the recovery of equipment sales and an excellent performance in fixed broadband and IT & Integration services. Growth was primarily driven by Africa & Middle East, which posted its best first quarterly performance in 10 years (up 7.1 per […]

April 22, 2021

Orange Spain Q1 revenues down 7.4%

Tough market competition, along with low cost offers and promotions, have driven Orange Spain to experience a 7.4 per cent fall in its revenues to €1.1 billion in the first quarter of the year. In retail services, the fall was even worse, with a 10.2 per cent decline to €818 million. ARPU in convergent packages […]

April 22, 2021From David Del Valle in Madrid

SoftAtHome delivers latest Disney+ app to Orange

SoftAtHome, an independent software company for broadband, video, and analytics, has played a strategic role in the launch of Disney+ service on Orange France’s set-top boxes. After Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, and OCS (Orange Cinema Series), Orange’s worldwide subscribers now have access to the newest version of the Disney+ app through their Livebox TV offer. […]

April 20, 2021

Spain: FTTH reaches 11.7m lines

FTTH continues its rapid expansion in Spain adding 107,651 lines in February to reach a total of 11.7 million lines. In one year, the FTTH market has gained 1.3 million lines, according to latest CNMC data, versus a 0.7 million loss of DSL lines. Overall, 81.8 per cent of FTTH lines belonged to the three […]

April 16, 2021From David Del Valle in Madrid

Orange France launches Wi-Fi 6 Repeater powered by SoftAtHome

SoftAtHome, an independent software company for broadband, video, and analytics, has played an active role in Orange France’s successful Wi-Fi 6 repeater launch. The new Wi-Fi 6 repeater, available at Orange shops in France starting April 8th, is backwards compatible with the two latest generations of Livebox. With it, Orange subscribers can easily extend their […]

April 15, 2021