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Orange is Kicking it !!!!



Orange launches global partnership programme


By Nick Wood, Total Telecom

Monday 14 April 2014


Portugal's Zon Optimus and Polynesia's Vini are the first telcos to sign up to Orange Alliance.



Orange has launched an international partnership programme and signed up its first two network operators.

Called Orange Alliance, the programme provides members with resources and support in a raft of areas, including device and service platform procurement, and marketing and pricing support. It also provides access to international roaming solutions, and offers a management development programme.

"Through the Orange Alliance programme, we hope to support the growth of third-party operators by providing them with access to high-value services based on the group's extensive experience and know-how," said Elie Girard, senior executive vice president of strategy and development at Orange, in a statement late Friday.

Two telcos have already joined the alliance: Zon Optimus, a Portuguese player formed from the merger last year of mobile operator Optimus and Internet provider Zon Multimedia, and Vini, which provides mobile and Internet services in French Polynesia.

Orange said it is in talks with operators in other countries and expects them to join in the coming months.

"As it grows, the programme will form a community of operators that will benefit our development strategy and increase the visibility of Orange across the world," said Girard.

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."