Orange group has reported that Q2 2024 revenues rose 0.9 per cent compared with the Q2 2023 (+€85 million) thanks to growth in retail services (+2.4 per cent or +€182 million) and a smaller decline in wholesale services (-7.9 per cent or -€128 million), mainly related to higher unbundling and civil engineering rates in France […]
Communications service providers (CSPs) have experienced substantial consolidation in recent years with 514 mobile and wireline M&A deals worldwide over the 2019-23 period, Omdia’s research shows. There have been more wireline M&A deals than mobile, with 392 wireline and 122 mobile M&A deals over the 2019-23 period. The mobile M&A includes prominent deals such as […]
Viaccess-Orca (VO), a provider of OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, has announced that pay-TV operator Orange Polska is using VO’s Secure Video Player for IPTV and OTT streaming on Sagemcom high-end, new-generation STBs. The VO Secure Video Player converges IPTV and OTT streams, allowing smooth transitions between live, time-shift TV, […]
BASE, the Belgian telco which has previously focused on its mobile offering, has added a fixed Internet offer (BASE Internet) and a TV offer (BASE TV) to its existing mobile offering (BASE mobile). With BASE Internet, customers can choose between a limited or an unlimited offer. With limited Internet, BASE customers who surf moderately […]
Max, the successor to HBO Max, is available through all the major telcos in Spain: Movistar, Vodafone, Orange as well as cable companies Euskaltel, R and Telecable. All operators are now promoting the service with different optios in their packages. Movistar is offering Max in six different packages from €16 to €36 a month Ficción […]
Orange and Nokia are expanding their partnership to advance network programmability and monetisation. Using Nokia’s Network as Code platform with developer portal, developers will be able to test and take advantage of Orange’s 5G network capabilities to create applications for customers in France and other parts of Europe. Orange is already providing commercial production grade […]
Canal+ has restructured its drama and movies offering and will relaunch it under new on-demand brand, Ciné+ OCS, on July 3rd The French pay-TV group acquired the OCS pay-TV bouquet, and its production arm Orange Studio, from Orange France in January. Available via the Canal+ bouquet as well as through services operated by various distributing […]
Orange has reported Q1 group revenues rose 2.1 per cent compared with the first quarter of 2023 (+€201 million) thanks to growth in retail services (+3.2 per cent or +€232 million ) and a smaller decline in wholesale services (-4.1 per cent or -€62 million), mainly related to higher unbundling rates in France. Commenting on […]
FTTH lines in Spain grew by 102,921 in February 2024, reaching a total of 15.6 million, according to the latest report from CNMC. Some 5.4 million lines, 34.6 per cent of the total, belong to Movistar with 310,000 new lines added on a year-on-year basis. Movistar, Orange and MásMóvil together control 72.6 per cent of […]
MásOrange (+O), the new brand arising from the merger between MásMóvil and Orange, has launched with a massive presentation to its 7,000 staff under the slogan ‘Estrenamos Futuro’ (We Launch The Future), promising not to cut jobs and guaranteeing huge investments in FTTH and 5G in the coming years. The new company will operate in […]