Orange wins Best Global Wholesale Carrier award at Capacity Awards 2012
The Capacity Awards celebrate innovation, excellence and vision throughout global wholesale telecoms. For the 12th edition which took place on November 13th in Amsterdam, Orange took home the much-coveted Best Global Wholesale Carrrier award.
Alexandre Pebereau, Executive Vice President, International Carrier, France Telecom-Orange, commented, “it is a great honour to receive this prestigious prize on behalf of Orange. Being awarded Best Global Wholesale Carrier Award is a tremendous international recognition of Orange 2012 performance and prominent role in an increasingly competitive wholesale industry. This award praises our teams for the quality of the work accomplished in delivering innovations and global access that wholesale customers expect from Orange. This is a great encouragement for us to strive even further to remain among industry leaders”.
Orange has enjoyed a successful first semester 2012, recording significant levels of growth in its voice and data services above the wholesale market both in volumes and value. The wholesale teams have demonstrated huge creativity and boldly committed to extending operations, based on the Group leadership in the fields of networks, Internet access and international development.
Offering international brand and innovation, Orange pursues the development of wholesale advanced services at an accelerated pace. The judges singled out Orange latest wholesale innovative solutions: Multiservice IP eXchange to improve connectivity between networks for international traffic and @first, the first fully-integrated offer to protect operators’ revenues against fraudulent interconnect and revenue leakage. The jury, composed of telecoms analysts and industry experts, underlined the positive impact of Orange on the wholesale market.
About Orange
France Telecom-Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 45.3 billion euros for 2011 and has 170,000 employees worldwide at 30 September 2012, including 105,000 employees in France. Present in 33 countries, the Group has a total customer base of 227 million customers at 30 September 2012, including 169 million mobile customers and 15 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 NYSE Euronext Paris (compartment A) and on the New York Stock Exchange.
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