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Orange — M&A Activity 2011
Mar 3, 2011
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M&A Activity
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Free Mobile and Orange sign a 2G roaming agreement and agree to extend this to 3G networks
Following a series of negotiations that have taken place over the past few months, Free Mobile (Iliad) and Orange signed a national roaming agreement on 2 March 2011 for their respective 2G networks in France.
Free Mobile and Orange have decided to extend this agreement to cover their 3G networks.
This agreement will take effect once Free Mobile has deployed a network that offers coverage for 25% of the French population. Under the terms of its licence, Free Mobile has taken a clear commitment to deploy a network that offers coverage to at least 90% of the population by 2018.
About Orange
France Telecom-Orange is one of the world's leading telecommunications operators with 169,000 employees worldwide, including 102,000 employees in France, and sales of 45.5 billion euros in 2010. Present in 32 countries, the Group had a customer base of 209.6 million customers at the end of 2010, including 139.7 million customers under the Orange brand, the Group's single brand for internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the company operates. At 31 December 2010, the Group had 150.4 million mobile customers and 13.7 million broadband internet (ADSL, fibre) customers worldwide. Orange is one of the main European operators for mobile and broadband internet services and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies.
With its industrial project, "conquests 2015", Orange is simultaneously addressing its employees, customers and shareholders, as well as the society in which the company operates, through a concrete set of action plans. These commitments are expressed through a new vision of human resources for employees; through the deployment of a network infrastructure upon which the Group will build its future growth; through the Group's ambition to offer a superior customer experience thanks in particular to improved quality of service; and through the acceleration of international development
France Telecom (NYSE:FTE) is listed on Euronext Paris (compartment A) and on the New York Stock Exchange. For more information (on the internet and on your mobile): www.orange.com, www.orange-business.com, www.orange-innovation.tv
Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trade marks of Orange Brand Services Limited, Orange France or France Telecom.
Press contact: +33 1 44 44 93 93
Béatrice Mandine, [email protected]