Tag: orange

July 1, 2024

European carriers Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, TIM and Vodafone Group have released an update on the technical priorities of Open RAN, the telcos said in a joint statement. The update is the result of the work carried out by these […]

February 7, 2024

Orange Slovakia has become the first operator in the country to provide 5G Internet connectivity for companies. After a successful test run that started on December 14, 2023, the service is now available for business customers. This service provides businesses […]

October 10, 2023

Vodafone and Orange announced that they have successfully conducted a pilot with the first real-life experience of 4G calls over a cluster of shared commercial network sites in a rural area near Bucharest, Romania, based on Open RAN technology. This […]

March 23, 2022

A group comprising some of Europe’s largest telecommunications operators updated a list of priority technical requirements for the development of O-RAN systems. In a statement, the telcos noted that the new release is an update of the document published in […]

January 4, 2022

Research from Orange Cyberdefense, Europe’s largest managed security services provider, reveals that there has been a 13% increase in cyberattacks on enterprises over the past 12 months, with a rise in ransomware incidents and, for the first time, a noticeable […]

November 19, 2021

In a recent trial, Nokia and Orange used the Nokia PSE-Vs, the vendor’s fifth generation super coherent optics, to support end-to-end 400 Gbps services across the carrier’s network. The trial was performed in real-world conditions and over a 914 km […]

November 12, 2021

Samsung Electronics this week announced the company is one of the first global vendors to participate in the opening of Orange’s Open RAN Integration Center in Paris, France. In the center, the two companies will collaborate to disaggregate the hardware […]

September 20, 2021

What exactly will 6G be? Given that current research is taking place among academics and technology partners in the private sector well ahead of formalized discussions within standardization bodies like the 3GPP, that’s hard to say. It’s fair to think […]

September 14, 2021

Amdocs on Monday announced that it has been selected by Orange to provide the business support systems for Europe’s first 5G Stand Alone (SA) experimental cloud network launched in July in Lannion, France. The data- and AI-driven software-enabled network, automated […]

July 6, 2021

France had a total of 26,084 5G authorized sites as of July 1, of which 19,002 were declared technically operational by the local mobile operators, according to the latest information provided by France’s spectrum agency ANFR. ANFR said that the […]

March 31, 2021

In support of the broad industry move toward cloud-based radio access networks running on commodity hardware, Ericsson and a number of operator and other partners announced the launch of the Ericsson Open Lab in Ottawa, Canada. Operators involved include KDDI, […]

December 15, 2020

Iliad subsidiary Free Mobile has become the fourth mobile network in France to announce the commercial launch of 5G. The telco said that its 5G network already has 5,255 active sites across France, which enables the carrier to cover almost […]

December 7, 2020

Nokia announced that it is leading the Hexa-X project, the European Commission’s 6G flagship initiative for research that will drive the overall vision for not-yet-standardized 6G. The project goals include creating unique 6G use cases and scenarios, developing fundamental 6G […]

August 7, 2020

In previous generations of cellular, HPE has largely focused its telco core network efforts on subscriber data management. But with 5G designed as a cloud-native network from core to edge, the company sees a much bigger opportunity that leverages its […]

July 21, 2020

Parallel Wireless on July 16 announced it is working with multi-national carrier Orange to use its disaggregated Open RAN technology to expand coverage in the operator’s Central African Republic network footprint. In addition to the coverage boost, Orange is looking […]

July 6, 2020

The French government will not implement a total ban on the use of equipment from Chinese vendor Huawei in the rollout of 5G networks, but it will encourage local operators not to use such equipment, French paper Les Echos reported […]

April 30, 2019

5G networks require significant investment from operators in more fiber and more network infrastructure gear and sites. In an effort to deploy 5G as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, some operators are cooperating with competitors. Commercial 5G availability is currently […]

April 25, 2019

Vodafone and Orange have signed a new mobile and fixed network sharing agreement in Spain, with the main aim of enabling a faster deployment of 5G over a wider geographic area, Vodafone said in a release. Under the terms of […]

September 7, 2018

MUNICH, GERMANY- Fixed wireless access technology will be the main driver of French telecom group Orange’s 5G rollout, the group’s SVP of quality operations and performance Roberto Kung said in a keynote presentation during Huawei Operational Transformation Forum 2018, which […]

July 21, 2016

AT&T and Orange have signed an agreement to collaborate on driving the open source and standardization initiatives that will accelerate the standardization of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) technologies. Through a network-centric approach, AT&T and Orange are committed to making […]