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Mauritius Telecom sees the future as Orange

  • April 19th, 2008
  • 9:10 am

Mauritius Telecom (MT) is to unite its subsidiaries Cellplus and Telecom Plus under the Orange brand used by 40% shareholder France Telecom. Along with the rebranding, MT will offer new services and tariffs including lower roaming charges, rate reductions on user-selected numbers, and faster internet access speeds. No cost has been attributed to the rebranding or service expansion. ‘The only thing I can say is that Orange participated largely in the cost of the launch of this change of names,’ said MT CEO Sarat Lallah at a press conference yesterday.

   

 

Mobile operators risk running out of numbers, official says (Mauritius)

  • January 11th, 2008
  • 2:34 pm

Mauritius’ mobile operator could run out of numbers soon, unless the government quickly resolves the issue of telephone numbering, Cellular News reports, citing local press. The CEO of Emtel, Shyam Roy, told journalists there were only 200,000 unallocated telephone numbers available and that as his company alone was signing up in the region of 30,000 new mobile users a month, before long the country could run out of numbers altogether. Roy said that under the country’s National Numbering Plan of 2004, mobile numbering capacity should have been increased to give mobile operators capacity of six million numbers, but this never happened. Discussions are under way with the regulator to add the number ‘7’ to all mobile numbers which would up capacity to ten million phone numbers, but Roy says government needs to take a swift decision on the matter.

   

 

Orange UK prepares for TV launch with Disney deal

  • July 27th, 2007
  • 2:44 pm

Orange UK has signed a licencing agreement with Disney-ABC International Television to secure content for its upcoming digital TV service. The multi-year agreement includes video-on-demand selections from Disney for both the PC and digital TV. Orange plans to launch the IPTV service later this year. The company already offers TV over ADSL in France, Spain, Mauritius, Senegal and Poland. Disney content will include films from Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Films.