Sol Trujillo - the new chief executive of Orange SA
Orange launches in the Netherlands and Botswana
Orange forms part of new m-payment association
Orange coverage
Orange Data Forum
The new service plan from Orange
Instruments for control of telecommunications costs
Orange Interactiv



Sol Trujillo - the new chief executive of Orange SA

Sol Trujillo, aged 51 and an American citizen, has been a member of the Orange S.A. board since January 2001. Starting with March 3rd, he was appointed CEO of Orange S.A. His appointment was recommended by the nominations committee and accepted by the Orange board of directors on 13 February 2003.

Sol has spent more than half his life working in the telecommunication industry. Following an MBA from the University of Wyoming in 1974, he began his career at the Mountain Bell phone company, a local subsidiary of AT&T. At 32, he became its youngest ever executive.

When Mountain Bell demerged and became Denver-based regional carrier USWest, Sol rose through the ranks to become chief executive in 1995 and chairman in 1999.

As someone who knows Orange and the telecommunication industry well, Sol has a truly international outlook coupled with broad experience in virtually every aspect of the sector.

More details about Orange worldwide on www.orange.com .


Orange launches in the Netherlands and Botswana

Dutchtone, the Dutch mobile telephony subsidiary of Orange S.A., launched as Orange on 31 March 2003. Orange S.A. has made significant investment, totalling EUR 400 mil. in its Dutch business over the last two years, improving network quality, customer and retail experience and enabling it to deliver a batch of new products and services. Orange is confident that the launch of the Orange brand will signal a new, exciting and vibrant presence in the Dutch market. The Orange network in Holland covers 98.6% of the country.

Also, on March 26, Orange brand was launched in Botswana. Vista Cellular in Botswana is the latest operation in Africa to be re-branded after the successful launches of Orange in the Ivory Coast and in Cameroon last summer. In Africa, Orange has operations in Botswana, Cameroon, Egypt, the Ivory Coast, and Madagascar and is the only global operator to have an established brand presence in sub saharian Africa.


Orange forms part of new m-payment association

Orange, T-Mobile, Telefonica Mobiles and Vodafone jointly announced the formation of a new mobile payment services association aimed at delivering an open, commonly branded solution for payments via mobile phones, designed to work across all operator networks.

The solution will work across country boundaries and will seek to complement existing industry solutions.

An interoperable, international m-payment standard means that Orange customers will be able to purchase a wide range of digital and physical goods and services with their mobile phones using an easy, secured solution.

The association announced today aims to set the industry standard for m-commerce payments.


Orange coverage

By using our services you can communicate with your clients and employees in every city in Romania, because Orange is the only mobile telephony operator that covers all the cities.

When you travel around the country it is important to know that the coverage of the national and European roads reaches now 91%, this being a permanent priority for Orange.

In addition, the GPRS coverage area is identical with the GSM one, thus offering the mobility that your business requires.

You can check here the Orange coverage.



Orange Data Forum

On the 20th of March, a Data Forum organized by Orange Romania took place at World Trade Center.
Here, Product Managers from Orange presented the new offer of mobile and fixed data services that Orange proposes to its clients.
The guests invited to the event were IT representatives and managers from large companies.

Details on the development of the event will be presented to you in the next issue of our newsletter.


The new service plan from Orange

Starting with the 4th of April, Orange Romania launches a different concept for its tariffs plan.

According to this concept, flexible services plans can be built by adding voice options or other services either to a basic subscription, without included minutes (the 4 USD subscription), or to subscriptions with included minutes (from 60 to 6000 national minutes included).

The options - national minutes or inside the network minutes, national favorite numbers or inside the network numbers, text or multimedia messages - can be activated at any moment and the change or the deactivation can be done at the beginning of the next invoicing month.

For example, any subscription of the new plan could activate the option with 180 inside network minutes during weekend, option charged at 3 USD / month.

You can find detailed information about the new tariffs and subscriptions plan in the service plans and options



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

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