France Telecom Marine is changing its name to Orange Marine: stakes and opportunities
Orange, the French company continues its transformation, henceforth France
Telecom Marine, the fully-owned subsidiary of Orange specializing in submarine
cable laying and maintenance for
the telecommunications sector, is changing its name to Orange Marine.
the telecommunications sector, is changing its name to Orange Marine.
It henceforth official, the subsidiary has been using the Orange brand for
all of its operations and interactions with customers all over the world since
1 July 2013.
Connectikpeople has also discovered that, three of its five cable ships are
progressively being overhauled to reflect Orange’s visual identity. The other
two vessels, which were acquired in 2010, will continue to operate under the
brand Elettra for commercial reasons.
Now, www.orange.com/OrangeMarine, a new web site provides descriptions of the subsidiary’s operations,
fleet and key services.
We may recall that, since its establishment,
Orange Marine has laid 170,000 kilometres of cable in every ocean, the
equivalent of more than four times the earth’s circumference. Its ships carry
out an average of 50 operations a year, some of which are at depths of 8,500
meters.
Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with
sales of 43.5 billion euros in 2012 and has 170,000 employees worldwide at 31
March 2013, including 104,000 employees in France. Present in 32 countries, the
Group has a total customer base of close to 230 million customers at 31 March
2013, including 172 million mobile customers and 15 million broadband internet
(ADSL, fibre) customers worldwide. Orange is also a leading provider of global
IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies, under the brand
Orange Business Services.
