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Orange Capital/Financing Update 2013

Aug 30, 2013

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Capital/Financing Update

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30 August 2013

ORANGE

Issue of EUR 850,000,000 1.875 per cent. Fixed Rate Notes due 3 September 2018 (the "Notes")

under the EUR 30,000,000,000

Euro Medium Term Note Programme

PART A – CONTRACTUAL TERMS

Terms used herein shall be deemed to be defined as such for the purposes of the Conditions set forth in the Base Prospectus dated 12 June 2013 which received visa No. 13-276 from the Autorité des marchés financiers (the AMF) on 12 June 2013 and the supplement to the Base Prospectus dated 1 August 2013 which received visa No. 13-445 from the AMF on 1 August 2013, which together constitute a base prospectus for the purposes of the Prospectus Directive (Directive 2003/71/EC, as amended, including by Directive 2010/73/EU) (the Prospectus Directive). This document constitutes the Final Terms of the Notes described herein for the purposes of Article 5.4 of the Prospectus Directive and must be read in conjunction with the Base Prospectus as so supplemented. Full information on the Issuer and the offer of the Notes is only available on the basis of the combination of these Final Terms and the Base Prospectus. Copies of the Base Prospectus and the supplements to such Base Prospectus are available for viewing on the websites of the Issuer (www.orange.com) and of the AMF (www.amf-france.org) and from the head office of the Issuer and the specified offices of the Paying Agents. Copies of these Final Terms are available for viewing on the website of the AMF (www.amf-france.org).

1. Issuer: Orange
2. (a) Series Number: 133
(b) Tranche Number: 1
3. Specified Currency or Currencies: Euro ("EUR")
4. Aggregate Nominal Amount:
(a) Tranche: EUR 850,000,000
(b) Series: EUR 850,000,000
5. Issue Price: 99.67
per cent. of the Aggregate Nominal Amount.
6. (a) Specified Denominations: EUR 100,000
(b) Calculation Amount: EUR 100,000
7. (a) Issue Date: 3 September 2013
(b) Interest Commencement Date: Issue Date
8. Maturity Date: 3
September
2018
9. Interest Basis: 1.875
per cent. Fixed Rate
10. Redemption/Payment Basis: Redemption at par
11. Change of
Interest
Basis
or
Redemption/Payment Basis:
Not Applicable
12. Put/Call Options: Make-whole Redemption by the Issuer
(further particulars specified below)
13. (a) Status of the Notes: Senior Unsecured
(b) Date of
corporate decision
to issue
the Notes:
Resolution of the Conseil d'administration of the
Issuer dated 24 October 2012
Decision of Gervais Pellissier, Directeur
Général
Délégué
of the Issuer, dated 29 August 2013
14. Method of distribution: Syndicated
Provisions Relating to Interest (if any) Payable
15. Fixed Rate Note Provisions: Applicable
(a) Rate(s) of Interest: 1.875
per cent. per annum payable annually in arrear
(b) Interest Payment Date(s): 3
September
in each year up to and including the
Maturity Date
(c) Fixed Coupon Amount: EUR
1,875
per Calculation Amount
(d) Broken Amount(s): Not Applicable
(e) Day Count Fraction: Actual/Actual (ICMA)
(f) Determination Date(s): 3 September
in each year
(g) Business Day Convention: Following Business Day Convention
(h) Party
responsible
for
calculating
Interest
Amounts
(if
not
the
Calculation Agent):
Not Applicable
16. Floating Rate Note Provisions: Not Applicable
17. Zero Coupon Note Provisions: Not Applicable
18. Index Linked Note Provisions Not Applicable
Provisions Relating to Redemption

19. Make-whole Redemption by the Issuer: Applicable

(a) Quotation Agent: Merrill Lynch International
2 King Edward Street
London EC1A 1HQ
United Kingdom
(b) Discounting basis for purposes of
calculating sum of the present values
of the remaining scheduled payments
of
principal
and
interest
on
Redeemed
Notes
in
the
determination of the Make-whole
Redemption Amount:
Annual
(c) Benchmark Security: The
Obligations
assimilables du Trésor
issued by
Agence France Trésor due 25 November 2018 (ISIN:
FR0011523257) or any other Obligations assimilables
du Trésor issued by Agence France Trésor maturing
on or about the Maturity Date in the event that the
Obligations assimilables du Trésor
issued by Agence
France
Trésor
due
25
November
2018
(ISIN:
FR0011523257) are no longer in issuance.
(d) Make-whole Margin: 0
per cent. per annum
(e) Timing for calculation of Benchmark
Security Price
11:00
a.m.
Central European time (CET) on the
Calculation Date.
(f) Person(s) to be notified by Issuer of
Make-whole Redemption Date and
Make-whole Redemption Amount, in
accordance with Condition 6(d):
Citibank
N.A.
Citigroup Centre,
Canada Square,
Canary Wharf,
London E14 5LB
BNP Paribas Securities Services
Corporate Trust Services
Les Grands Moulins de Pantin
9 rue du Débarcadère
93500 Pantin
France
Merrill Lynch
International
2 King Edward Street
London EC1A 1HQ
United Kingdom
20. Issuer Call: Not Applicable
21. Investor Put: Not Applicable
22. Final
Redemption Amount:
EUR 100,000
per Calculation Amount
23. Early Redemption Amount of each Note
payable on redemption for taxation reasons
EUR 100,000
per Calculation Amount

or on event of default:

General Provisions Applicable to the Notes

    1. Form of Notes:
  • (a) Form: Temporary Global Note exchangeable for a Permanent Global Note which is exchangeable for Definitive Notes only upon an Exchange Event (b) New Global Note: No 25. Additional Business Centre(s) or other special provisions relating to Payment Dates: Not Applicable 26. Talons for future Coupons or Receipts to be attached to Definitive Notes (and dates on which such Talons mature): No 27. Details relating to Instalment Notes: (a) Instalment Amount(s): Not Applicable (b) Instalment Date(s): Not Applicable 28. Redenomination provisions: Not Applicable 29. Consolidation provisions: Not Applicable Distribution 30. (a) If syndicated, names of Managers: Merrill Lynch International 2 King Edward Street London EC1A 1HQ

Each of the above a Joint Lead Manager

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank

2 Swan Lane London, EC4R 3BF United Kingdom

RBC Europe Limited Riverbank House

United Kingdom

France

The Royal Bank of Scotland plc

9 quai du Président Paul Doumer 92920 Paris La Défense Cedex

135 Bishopsgate London EC2M 3UR United Kingdom

(b) Stabilising Manager(s) (if any): Not Applicable
31. If non-syndicated, name of relevant Dealer: Not Applicable
32. U.S. Selling Restrictions: Regulation S Category 2 TEFRA D
33. Additional selling restrictions: Not Applicable

PART B – OTHER INFORMATION

1. LISTING AND ADMISSION TO TRADING

Listing and Admission to trading: Application has been made by the Issuer (or on its behalf) for the Notes to be admitted to trading on Euronext Paris, with effect from the Issue Date.

Estimate of total expenses relating to admission to trading: EUR 4,000

2. RATINGS

The Notes to be issued are expected to be rated:

Standard and Poor's ("S&P"):BBB+ (stable)

Moody's: A3 (negative)

S&P and Moody's are established in the European Union and registered under Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 as amended by Regulation (EC) No 513/2011 (the "CRA Regulation"). As such S&P and Moody's are included in the list of credit rating agencies published by the European Securities and Markets Authority on its website in accordance with the CRA Regulation.

3. INTERESTS OF NATURAL AND LEGAL PERSONS INVOLVED IN THE ISSUE

Save for any fees payable to the Dealer(s), so far as the Issuer is aware, no person involved in the issue of the Notes has an interest material to the offer.

4. REASONS FOR THE OFFER, ESTIMATED NET PROCEEDS AND TOTAL EXPENSES

Indication of yield: 1.945
per cent. per annum
5.
YIELD (Fixed Rate Notes Only)
(iii) Estimated total expenses: Not Applicable
(ii) Estimated net proceeds: EUR
844,857,500
(i) Reasons for the offer: General corporate purposes

The yield is calculated at the Issue Date on the basis of the Issue Price. It is not an indication of future yield.

6. PERFORMANCE OF INDEX AND OTHER INFORMATION CONCERNING THE UNDERLYING

Not applicable

7. OPERATIONAL INFORMATION

(i) ISIN Code: FR0011560069
(ii) Common Code: 096843186
(iii) Common Depositary for Euroclear
and Clearstream, Luxembourg:
Not Applicable
(iv) Central Depositary: Euroclear France
(v) Any clearing system(s) other than
Euroclear
Bank
S.A./N.V.
and
Clearstream
Banking,
société
anonyme
and
the
relevant
identification number(s):
Euroclear France
(vi) Delivery: Delivery against
payment
(vii) Names and addresses of Additional
Paying Agent(s) (if any):
Not Applicable
(viii) Intended to be held in a manner
which
would
allow
Eurosystem
eligibility:
Yes
Note
that the designation "yes" simply means that the
Notes are intended upon issue to be deposited with
one of the ICSDs as common safekeeper and does not
necessarily mean that the Notes will be recognised as
eligible collateral for Eurosystem monetary policy
and intra-day credit operations by the Eurosystem
either upon issue or at any or all times during their
life. Such recognition will depend upon satisfaction
of the Eurosystem eligibility criteria.
(ix) Names and addresses of additional
Paying Agent(s):
Not Applicable
(x) Address
and
contact
details
of
Orange
for
all
administrative
communications
relating
to
the
Notes:
78 rue Olivier de Serres
75505 Paris cedex 15
Telephone: (+33) 1 44 44 91 60
Telex:
202520
Facsimile: (+33) 1 45 40 04 52
Attention:
Direction
du
Financement
et
de
la
Trésorerie