about Orange

Orange is the commercial brand of France Telecom, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators. It is the Group’s single brand for internet, television, mobile and all digital services in the majority of the countries where the company.

Since June 2006, Orange has become the Group's single brand for Internet, television and mobile in most of its markets and Orange Business Services, the name for the services offered to businesses worldwide.

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facts and figures

The Group's people around the world are committed to delivering the promise of the Orange brand to enable everyone in every situation to better communicate, collaborate and create with others.

At 30 September 2011, the France Telecom-Orange Group had more than 221 million customers worldwide, up 6.3% on year earlier on a comparable basis, including a total of 162.1 million mobile customers (up 8.9%) and 14.2 million fixed broadband service customers (up 5.4%).

And there's more...

number 1 broadband internet provider in Europe
number 3 mobile operator in Europe
number 1 Voice over IP provider in Europe
first operator in the world to launch Mobile HD Voice
number 2 provider for IP television services in the world, number one in Europe

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global footprint

The Orange brand’s geographic footprint continues to grow to new markets such as Luxemburg and Tunisia. This brings a growing number of customers access to a world of top-performing services and media, while local offers are able to leverage the visibility of the brand and its values.

business activities

220 countries and territories

consumer/business activities

Armenia - Austria - Bahrain - Belgium - Botswana - Cameroon - Central African Republic - Dominican Republic - Egypt - Equatorial Guinea - France - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Jordan - Liechtenstein - Luxembourg - Madagascar - Mali - Mauritius - Moldova - Niger - Poland - Republic of Cote d’Ivoire - Romania - Senegal - Slovakia - Spain - Switzerland - Tunisia - Uganda - United Kingdom - Vanuatu

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global_footprint

our brand

In the space of just a few years Orange has grown from a mobile phone brand in the United Kingdom to one of the world's leading brands in broadband, content and associated services for consumers and businesses.

In the 2011 ranking of the world's most powerful brands by Milward Brown Optimor, Orange climbed to no. 36, alongside names like Facebook and BMW, and ahead of others like Disney. As part of the conquests 2015 project, Orange introduced a new communication platform to claim its position as everyone's digital coach, all around the world.

This attitude is expressed in our new signature "today changes with Orange". It captures our everyday commitment to make the world's digital transformation a simple and useful reality for all.

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innovation

Our ambition is to provide integrated solutions that meet the needs of customers in their three main communications areas: at home, at work and on the move.

France Telecom Group has transformed its business in order to offer to customers innovation, technological excellence and the best quality of service.

The Orange Labs network plays a major role in this innovation policy.

Launched at the beginning of 2007, the Orange Labs label is the group’s powerful worldwide network set up to manage all Group entities dedicated to innovation.

The Orange Labs network has 18 locations on three continents: China, South Korea, United States, France, Japan, Poland and United Kingdom and recently Egypt and Jordan.

The Orange Labs label includes the Group’s strong global research and development (R&D) network, and the technocentre, which is responsible for releasing new products and services on the market at the best time.

For every project a multidisciplinary team is put in place to bring together the required marketing, R&D and network skills.

find out more about our innovation on the Orange.com site

philanthropy

Through commitment to corporate philanthropy actions since 1987, the group has clearly established its reputation, helping build closer ties with, listened to and started a dialog with society.

Corporate philanthropy also enables us to demonstrate our values to various internal and external stakeholders. The group’s corporate philanthropy policy focuses on three global themes: disability, education and culture.

The Orange Foundation is working to help autistic people and improve the quality of life for the visually or hearing impaired.

In the area of education, the Foundation is fighting against adult illiteracy, and supports the education of young girls in developing countries.

In the cultural area, the Foundation is contributing to the development of ties through the promotion of collective vocal music.

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philanthropy

responsibility

For the past 15 years, we’ve worked hard to include sustainable development and Corporate Social Responsibility principles in our corporate strategy. In the digital society, the Group is shouldering its responsibilities to nurture social ties and ensure the greatest possible number of people benefit from the new technologies. Because CSR is important when it comes to creating value both for stakeholders and the Group, Orange has built the question into the heart of its Conquests 2015 strategic plan. The central role confirms the Group’s ambition to become a benchmark CSR player in the telecoms sector.

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responsibility

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