News tagged: Orange

01 July, 2020

Career Snapshot: Bursary diverted van Huyssteen into telecoms, but industry evolution keeps him fascinated

Arno Van Huyssteen has gone from seven year-old ice cream entrepreneur, through his first hardware upgrade done with paper manuals, to long-term industry transformations like virtualisation.  (more…)

19 June, 2020

Amdocs, Netcracker, Nokia and Oracle align with global SPs to deliver open digital architecture

TM Forum, the industry association behind digital business transformation through collaboration, reports that Amdocs, Netcracker Technologies, Nokia and Oracle Communications are adopting the collaboratively developed Open Digital Architecture. (more…)

12 June, 2020

Richard shakes up leadership team to accelerate Orange’s post-crisis Engage2025 strategy

Orange is restructuring its organisation by adapting its Executive Committee to exit the health crisis in the best conditions. Group CEO, Stephane Richard’s new team will accelerate the implementation of the Group’s strategic plan. (more…)

11 May, 2020

Killed off by NTT DoCoMo: NB-IoT still kicking globally, but for how long?

Japan’s telco, NTT DoCoMo, shut down its NarrowBand-IoT (NB-IoT) network on March 31^st. Coming barely a year after NTT’s services were launched, Jeremy Cowan editorial director of VanillaPlus turned to industry watchers for their views on the decision and what lies ahead for NB-IoT. (more…)

03 March, 2020

MobiledgeX extends edge computing support to the enterprise with platform update

MobiledgeX, Inc. has released MobiledgeX Edge-Cloud R2.0 for the enterprise edge. This enables private and public edge cloud integration to allow developers to deploy location-specific services. (more…)

15 February, 2020

Vendors are one thing, but MWC20 was never going to survive telco withdrawals

A WEEK IN TELCO IT: There’s really only been one story in Telco IT this week and, of course, it’s the cancellation of Mobile World Congress 2020 announced on social media on Wednesday night. It’s hard at the moment to see it as anything other than a body-blow to the mobile communications industry, to Barcelona, and to all the businesses that rely on 110,000 people landing in the Catalan capital. (more…)

31 January, 2020

Orange selects Nokia and Ericsson as the OEMs for deployment of its 5G network in mainland France

Following a request for proposals launched in early 2019 to select its 5G equipment suppliers, and after several months of testing, Orange has chosen Nokia and Ericsson. (more…)

27 January, 2020

Orange recognised for environmental reporting on the Carbon Disclosure Project’s A List

Orange’s commitment to managing its activities’ impact on climate change has been recognised by the Carbon Disclosure Project, an international organisation for greenhouse gas emissions reporting. The group’s appearance on the A List marks it as one of the top performers on environmental reporting in 2019. (more…)

13 January, 2020

FutureNet World 2020: Network automation and AI are core to the industry’s growth in a 5G era

FutureNet World (www.futurenetworld.net) returns for the 2^nd edition in London on March 24-25th. The event brings together a global audience of senior telco executives, says Giles Cummings, founder & CEO of FutureNet World, to discuss the strategic and commercial considerations and decisions that CSPs are making today and the implications for the network. (more…)

13 November, 2019

Telcos’ Open API use is outpacing vendor supply, TM Forum survey reveals

A new survey by the TM Forum, the industry association driving digital transformation through collaboration, confirms that both sides of the communications industry are making progress in using Open APIs. But it also reveals that vendors’ native Open API support lags behind the demand from CSPs.

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