CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, November 11, 2011/ — Orange
(http://www.orange.com) won the “Best New Service” award at the
AfricaCom Awards 2011. The awards gala dinner took place on Wednesday,
9 November in Cape Town, South Africa. The awards are a unique annual
celebration of innovation and the highest achievements across the
communications industry in Africa. An independent panel of judges
adjudicates.
Orange won the “Best New Service” award for Surf & Pay, a service that
aims to facilitate access to the Internet. Surf & Pay is a system for
sharing and re-charging Internet access, designed for hotels and
internet cafés that want to provide their customers with Internet
access using WiFi. It also allows individuals to share the costs of
broadband Internet access with their neighbours, using a payment
interface that is both flexible and secure. Up to 20 people can be
connected to the service, and each of them will pay according to the
time and volume consumed. The service is already availbale in Uganda
and will soon be launched in Kenya; outside Africa, it is also
availbale to Orange customers in Armenia.
Commenting after receiving the award, Marc Rennard, Executive Vice
President responsible for Africa, the Middle East and Asia at Orange
said: \”We believe that by developing products and services that
provide widespread access to the Internet and by offering solutions
that are specifically designed for small and medium-sized companies,
we can contribute to the economic and social development of Africa and
the Middle East. This award praises the quality of the work
accomplished by our teams in designing innovative services adapted to
the African continent.”
Distributed by the African Press Organization for Orange.
About Orange
France Telecom-Orange (http://www.orange.com) is one of the world’s
leading telecommunications operators with 170,000 employees worldwide,
including 102,000 employees in France, and sales of 33.8 billion euros
in the first nine months of 2011. Present in 35 countries, the Group
had a customer base of 221 million customers at 30 September 2011,
including 145 million customers under the Orange brand, the Group\’s
single brand for internet, television and mobile services in the
majority of countries where the company operates. At 30 September
2011, the Group had 162 million mobile customers and 14 million
broadband internet (ADSL, fibre) customers worldwide. Orange is one of
the main European operators for mobile and broadband internet services
and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world
leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational
companies.
With its industrial project, \”conquests 2015\”, Orange is
simultaneously addressing its employees, customers and shareholders,
as well as the society in which the company operates, through a
concrete set of action plans. These commitments are expressed through
a new vision of human resources for employees; through the deployment
of a network infrastructure upon which the Group will build its future
growth; through the Group\’s ambition to offer a superior customer
experience thanks in particular to improved quality of service; and
through the acceleration of international development
France Telecom (NYSE:FTE) is listed on Euronext Paris (compartment A)
and on the New York Stock Exchange.
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