Orange S.A. is a French telecommunications company headquartered in Paris, originating as France Telecom, the state telecommunications administration that was corporatized in 1990 and later privatized. It adopted the Orange brand, originally acquired from a British mobile operator, across its operations and formally renamed itself Orange in 2013, and it is one of the largest telecommunications companies in Europe, also operating extensively across Africa and the Middle East.
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Company TypeFrench multinational telecommunications corporation 2 Founded Year HeadquartersIssy-les-Moulineaux, France 2 Company Type
Company Type (category) Connections
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A major telecommunications carrier; classified in the atlas telecommunications-industry.
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Developed
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developed by Orange Labs (France), Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) and the Technical University of Denmark in 2007
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1. Wikidata: Orange S.A.
Wikidata Q1431486, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source 2. Wikipedia, Orange S.A.
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is a French multinational telecommunications corporation founded in 1988 and headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris.
3. Orange Group (Wikipedia)
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116,734 (2025)
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