new CEO for Orange Romania
WWW at a new speed
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new CEO for Orange Romania

Tuesday, 14 of September, the Board of Shareholders of Orange Romania appointed Richard Moat as the new CEO of the company.
Graduate of Cambridge University in 1973, Richard Moat started his career at Lloyd’s of London and Sedgwick Group, than for ten years he held financial positions within USX/Marathon Oil prior to his first assignment in Orange.
Richard Moat has been the CEO of Orange Denmark since 2002, but he joined Orange in 1992 holding positions in Finance, Business Development and Operations and then CEO of Orange Thailand. As CEO of Orange Denmark, he played an important role in securing financial solidity in challenging market conditions. At the end of 2003, Orange Denmark ranked third among the five operators and held 12% market share.
As CEO of Orange Thailand, he was responsible for the operations and development of its GSM 1800 nationwide licence. During that period, he was also responsible for overseeing the operation of Orange’s other Asian businesses, including its stake in BPL in India and Rapidlink in China, and for business development in the region. At the end of his assignment as CEO, Orange Thailand had the network implemented, service coverage for 90% of territory and reached 1 million customers within the first year of operation.
Orange Romania was one of the fastest growing company in Romania last year, after the successful introduction of Orange brand in April 2002. The company has grown to become one of the leading telecoms operators and of the top five companies in Romania.
Brigitte Bourgoin, Executive Vice President of Orange International, commented:
“Richard brings a vast amount of experience and knowledge of the industry and of Orange to his new role. Romania is of key strategic importance as we maximise the opportunities of a growing market-place. Bernard has achieved excellent results in a short space of time and Orange Romania will be looking to build on this success even further under Richard’s leadership.
We wish them both every success in their new roles.”


WWW at a new speed

Mid October, Orange will be launching for the first time in Romania EDGE, a technology that brings significantly increased mobile data transfer speed.
EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) is an evolution technology of the existent GSM/GPRS network, meant to increase mobile data services quality through increased speed of transmission: Intranet/Internet mobile access, sending/receiving e-mails with attachments, WAP access.

Offering a three times faster transmission rate than the one reached by GPRS at this moment, EDGE will be available at launching in Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj Napoca and Brasov, and the coverage will be then continuously extended.
EDGE will not replace the existent GPRS network; these two technologies will work simultaneously. The user will be automatically connected to one of the two functioning networks, depending on the handset type (EDGE or GPRS) and the coverage area.
Since every company has specific needs, Orange offers for the first time the possibility to personalize the mobile data offer through options that can be activated over the Office Net Access or Mobile Internet Always-on mobile data service plans:
Intranet Unlimited - unlimited mobile access to the company’s internal computer network, on the basis of a monthly fee on SIM. Thus, users can benefit from remote access to internal network resources (e-mail account, electronic documents, files, SFA applications, M2M etc.), without constraints such as access time or the amount of information transferred .

Day Transfer - unlimited mobile access to Internet, every day from 08:00 to 20:00, based on monthly subscription. During daytime users can access Internet through a permanent connection, while the amount of transferred information is no longer significant.
Also, users may benefit from unlimited access to Internet for limited periods of time by choosing the options: Happy Sunday, Open Weekend, Night Addict or WAP Unlimited.

Mobile Office Card EDGE
Mobile Office Card offers you the possibility to use the laptop with maximum effectiveness outside your office as well, without being limited by a network or Internet connection line. Mobile Office Card from Orange is easy to install, configurate and use.
Mobile Office Card consists of a software application facilitating access to mobile data services through EDGE/GPRS, and of a PCMCIA SonyEricsson card as well.
All you have to do is to install the Mobile Office Card application (it takes few minutes), to insert the PCMCIA card in the laptop and you will have mobile access to Internet, e-mail account and text messages via a very simple interface displayed on your laptop screen.
With Mobile Office Card from Orange, your laptop truly becomes a mobile work instrument that helps you perform activities as if you were in your office.



We are waiting for your opinions and suggestions at the e-mail address infocorporate@orange.ro.

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