Category Archives: Orange

Social Computing; enabling the conversation

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Rob

The Orange Live event had several really great keynote’s with a particular highlight being Peter Sondargaard. A common theme through the keynotes was Social Computing and engaging with both customers and also generation Y as they enter the workforce. As … Continue reading →

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Orange to outsource mobile network operations in the UK

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Rob

Yesterday Nokia issued a statement indicating that, Nokia Siemens Networks will manage, plan, expand, optimize and provide maintenance services for the Orange UK 2G/3G mobile network for the next five years. An interesting development and not un-expected with the CEO, … Continue reading →

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Another new role at Orange!

Posted on July 12, 2008 by Rob

It’s only been a few months since the last time I mentioned that I’d got a new role within Orange Business, but it’s all change again, I’ve moved Managers and become the Manager of a new group, Telecoms Integrated Operators. … Continue reading →

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New role at Orange

Posted on February 24, 2008 by Rob

I’ve been keeping this under my hat for a few days, but my Manager told the rest of the team last week so it’s in the ‘public’ domain. I have the name of the person to handover to and a … Continue reading →

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Orange, GTL Integration on Verge of Completion

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Rob

This post states that Orange is close to the completion of the intergration of GTL. This is true, we have a account right now that we’re going to use GTL to manage part of the infrastructure. We had used partners … Continue reading →

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Orange an Official Sponsor of the Rugby World Cup 2007

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Rob

I’m currently on a conf call and the speaker just reminded us that Orange is the sponsor of the Rugby world cup and thanked the team as all was going great so far.

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Orange considers Christmas without the iPhone of APPLE

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Rob

It looks like France won’t see the iPhone before the key christmas trading period. The stumbling block appears to be France Telecom’s group fear that Apple can’t lock the device correctly to thier network. So it’s pretty clear that Orange … Continue reading →

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IBM outsources remaining network team to AT&T

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Rob

This is a really interesting story as I worked in this team about four months back, before leaving to join Orange. Back in 1998, about 90% of IBM’s networking was sold to AT&T, only the Local Area Network teams around … Continue reading →

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Enterprise Wiki update

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Rob

I installed Ubuntu 6.06 desktop version a few days back on the trial box I got from the tech team and have playing without too much luck with the LAMP setup. So I decided to start afresh and install Ubuntu 6.06 server … Continue reading →

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Orange threatens to spoil Nokia’s online music entertainment party

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Rob

Orange has threatened to spoil Nokia’s high-profile launch of its new music download service this week after warning that it will refuse to offer its flagship music handset to its 16 million customers in the UK unless the Finnish mobile … Continue reading →

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