2008

Orange Business Services offers mobile access to Business Talk

Orange Business Services is offering mobile access to Business Talk, its global voice service for enterprises that reaches a market-leading 102 countries.

As a fixed-mobile convergence service, mobile access enables customers to make international calls from their mobile phones over the Orange Business Services international voice network, regardless of the mobile carrier they subscribe to. Customers will enjoy benefits such as:

• significant cost savings:  international calls are carried over the Orange Business Services voice network for substantially less than most mobile providers charge.
  
• most popular phones supported:  Business Talk mobile access supports Windows and Symbian operating systems, and will soon support Blackberry. The service supports the broadest set of mobiles used by our target customers.
• easy deployment and use:  the service is easily deployed using SMS messages sent to end users’ mobile phones from a Web site accessed by the customers’ mobile fleet manager. End users then click on the link in the SMS and download a self-installing script.  End users can keep their normal calling routines because the script is smart enough to route calls to Business Talk when it is cost effective to do so
• detailed usage reports:  reporting is key to managing cost for mobiles. Business Talk mobile access provides the customer with detailed invoicing so that costs and usage can be tracked, monitored and cross charged to end users’ departments as needed.

“One of the main mobility support goals of IT in 2008 will be improving analysis of cost and usage trends to understand current-state usage patterns and predict IT support budget needs for the next 18 to 24 months,” according to Brownlee Thomas, Ph.D., Forrester, in a Jan. 2008 report titled “MNCs Will Prioritize Mobility Support in 2008.”

Mobile access is initially available in 22 countries where our top customers are located, spanning Asia, Europe and the U.S., and will increase to 28 countries by the end of Q2 2008.

About Orange

Orange is the key brand of France Telecom, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators. France Telecom serves more than 170 million customers in five continents as of Dec. 31, 2007, of which two thirds are Orange customers. The Group had consolidated sales of 52.9 billion euros in 2007. As of Dec. 31, 2007, the Group had 109.6 million mobile customers and 11.6 million broadband internet (ADSL) customers.

Launched in June 2005, the NExT program (New Experience in Telecommunications) will enable the Group to pursue its transformation as an integrated operator and make France Telecom the benchmark for new telecommunications services in Europe. In 2006, Orange became the Group's single brand for Internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the company operates, and Orange Business Services the banner for services offered to businesses worldwide. France Telecom is the number three mobile operator and the number one provider of broadband internet services in Europe and one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies.

France Telecom (NYSE:FTE) is listed on Euronext Paris and on the New York Stock Exchange.

For more information : www.orange.com, www.francetelecom.com, www.orange-business.com

Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trade marks of Orange Personal Communications Services Limited. 

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