BROWSING: France
Orange Travel and Orange et moi: smartphone apps keep track of mobile spending
Orange | August 9, 2011 | Press Release
Orange Travel: real time info on rates and spending abroad
Orange Travel lets Orange France’s customers check how much they’ve spent using their smartphone to talk, text and surf when they’re travelling abroad. As soon as they cross...
Alcatel-Lucent to publish its first half report to June 30, 2011
Alcatel-Lucent | August 8, 2011 | Press Release
Paris, August 8, 2011 - In compliance with current regulations, Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced it has published its first half report to June 30, 2011. The report is available in the Investors &...
Alcatel-Lucent’s Patents May Be Worth $9 Billion
Bloomberg | August 5, 2011 | Joseph Ciolli, Matthew Campbell
Alcatel-Lucent SA is giving potential buyers a chance to acquire its earnings for free with patents that may be worth as much as the company itself.
Read the full article here via Bloomberg
Alcatel-Lucent second quarter 2011 earnings
Alcatel-Lucent | July 28, 2011 | Press Release
Continuous progress in Alcatel-Lucent’s transformation: Top-line growth and improvement in profitability, Full-year guidance maintained.
KEY NUMBERS FOR THE SECOND QUARTER 2011
• Revenues of Euro 3.903 billion, up 10.4% year-over-year and up 7.6% sequentially at constant currency; up 2.4% year-over-year...
solid first-half results and 2011 outlook confirmed in line with the strategic plan “adapt to conquer”
Orange | July 28, 2011 | Press Release
7.0% increase in customer numbers on a comparable basis, led by a 23% rise in mobile services in Africa and the Middle East, with total Group customers of 217.3 million at 30 June 2011
consolidated revenues rose 0.3%...
Orange and Google partner to speed up the spread of innovative SMS-based services in Africa
Orange | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Orange and Google today announced a strategic partnership that will leverage Orange’s SMS platform to bring Google’s services to African customers. This agreement marks an important step forward that will facilitate access to the growing mobile internet...
Benoit Scheen appointed Executive Vice President of Europe for France Telecom-Orange
Orange | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Benoit Scheen, currently Chief Executive Officer of Mobistar in Belgium, has been appointed Executive Vice President of Europe (excluding France) of France Telecom-Orange as from 1 September 2011. In this role, he will be directly responsible for...
Marc Blanchet, new Enterprise France Director
Orange | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Marc Blanchet has been named Director of Enterprise France, effective 1 October 2011. His mission will be to improve customer satisfaction, increase revenues and sell convergent and IT offers on markets under his responsibility.
The Enterprise France Department...
BNP Paribas and Orange partner to launch the first entirely mobile banking offer in France
Orange | July 26, 2011 | Press Release
BNP Paribas and Orange have formed a partnership and signed a trademark licence agreement to launch innovative mobile banking services in November 2011.
This strategic business partnership allows the groups to share expertise in their respective areas of...
Alcatel-Lucent brings visual collaboration to users across the enterprise with suite of video solutions
Alcatel-Lucent | July 25, 2011 | Press Release
Paris, July 25, 2011 -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced availability of a suite of visual collaboration solutions that bring high-quality, cost-effective video to users across the enterprise. Alcatel-Lucent’s Visual Collaboration suite moves beyond...
Laurent Biojoux, new Customer Relations Director of Orange France
France Telecom - Orange | July 21, 2011 | Press Release
Laurent Biojoux was appointed Customer Relations Director of Orange France, effective 18 July 2011.
Orange France combines the operational activities of France Telecom Orange on French soil. With almost 80,000 employees, including 40,000 employees who...
France Telecom-Orange passes an important milestone in its FTTH fiber-optic program outside very-dense areas
France Telecom - Orange | July 21, 2011 | Press Release
France Telecom-Orange has published its third party-operator access offer for its FTTH fiber-optic network outside very-dense areas, and has signed an agreement with Free (Iliad Group) concerning fiber deployment in these areas that is...
Alcatel-Lucent management team
Alcatel-Lucent | July 20, 2011 | Press Release
Paris, July 20, 2011 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the following management changes being made with immediate effect.
As part of the company’s continuing focus on applications and services, a new business group -...
Alcatel-Lucent confirms it is exploring strategic options for its Enterprise business
Alcatel-Lucent | July 20, 2011 | Press Release
Paris, July 20, 2011 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it is exploring strategic options to enhance the future opportunities of its Enterprise business. All options are being explored including discussions with third...
Follow Orange in real time with Orange timeline, the Group’s twitter stream aggregator
France Telecom - Orange | July 19, 2011 | Press Release
Orange is inviting web-users to keep up with its news in real time on its new Orange timeline platform, which goes live today at: http://timeline.orange.com.
Orange is the first large group to aggregate all of...
Alcatel-Lucent and China Unicom boost 3G network to meet rising customer demand for mobile broadband services
Alcatel-Lucent | July 19, 2011 | Press Release
Shanghai, July 19, 2011 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU) today announced it will increase the efficiency and reach of China Unicom’s 3G network in over ten provinces to meet the rapidly rising demand for mobile broadband...
France Telecom in Talks to Acquire Stake in Congo China Telecom From ZTE
Bloomberg | July 18, 2011 | Matthew Campbell, Michael Kavanagh
France Telecom SA (FTE) may make the Democratic Republic of Congo its next target for African expansion after entering exclusive talks with China’s ZTE Corp. to purchase a majority stake in Congo China Telecom, the...
Orange and T-Mobile chief executive quits
BBC News | July 18, 2011
The boss of Everything Everywhere, the parent group of UK mobile phone networks Orange and T-Mobile, is standing down for "personal reasons".
Read the full article here via BBC News
Ericsson Money Services launches cross border international remittance service in Europe and Philippines
Ericsson | July 14, 2011 | Press Release
Today, Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) Money Services launches its first global ‘corridor’ for cross-border international remittance in partnership with Globe Telecom and Smart Communications Inc (Smart) enabling mobile phone users in the Philippines to send and receive money to...
“TVcheck”, the new app which aspires to revolutionize the social TV experience
France Telecom - Orange | July 12, 2011 | Press Release
With social networks and multi-screen functions now part of everyday life, you no longer want to wait until the following day before you can talk about and comment on the TV shows you watch....
NEW WORLD TELECOM AND ALCATEL-LUCENT BUILD SUPER-FAST OPTICAL NETWORK IN HONG KONG
Alcatel-Lucent | July 12, 2011 | Press Release
PARIS/hong kong, July 12, 2011 – New World Telecom, a leading telecommunications service provider in Hong Kong, has selected Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU) to prepare its optical network for the introduction of blazingly fast 100-G (gigabit)...
Canon Inc. and MEDIAN Technologies enter into agreement to develop IT solutions for hospitals
Canon Global | July 11, 2011 | Press Release
TOKYO, July 11, 2011—Canon Inc. ("Canon"; President and COO: Tsuneji Uchida; Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan) announced today that it has entered into a partnership agreement with MEDIAN Technologies S.A. ("MEDIAN Technologies"; Chairman and CEO:...
Orange and Samsung sign a European partnership agreement to launch an Orange portal on new Samsung Smart TVs
France Telecom - Orange | July 11, 2011 | Press Release
Samsung and Orange signed July 6th 2011 a European partnership agreement to provide an Orange content and services portal for Samsung Smart TVs.
The portal will be available in France in the coming weeks on...
TeliaSonera joins the M2M cooperation agreement of France Telecom-Orange and Deutsche Telekom
Telia Sonera | July 7, 2011 | Press Release
TeliaSonera has signed the cooperation agreement with France Telecom-Orange and Deutsche Telekom to increase the quality of service and interoperability for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The agreement, which initially was signed by France Telecom-Orange...