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AST SpaceMobile expanded partnerships with Orange, Telefonica, CK Hutchison, Taiwan Mobile, Sunrise, and Vodafone.
The partnership between Orange and AST SpaceMobile is non-exclusive.
Michaël Trabbia is CEO of Orange Wholesale.
The Orange–AST collaboration includes exploring measures to support European security requirements and studying integration into a core network managed by Orange.
Orange provides ground stations for many satellite operators.
Orange intends to run the same technical trial for its D2D service regardless of the geographic market.
Orange launched the 'Message Satellite' service in France in December 2025 with Skylo using GEO satellites, and that service is limited to messaging.
Orange is not a shareholder of AST SpaceMobile.
The orange bags carried by Artemis 2 crew contain all of the mission survival equipment.
Orange signed two memoranda of understanding with AST SpaceMobile: one for a joint venture covering Europe and another for the rest of the world.
Orange has partnership deals with AST SpaceMobile and Satellite Connect Europe to explore direct-to-device satellite services based on mobile satellite service spectrum in relevant Orange markets.
Orange will conduct direct-to-device satellite connectivity demonstrations in Romania focusing on voice, SMS, and data in the second half of 2026.
Orange intends to primarily use mobile satellite service spectrum for D2D services and anticipates that MSS allocation in Europe will take place between 2027 and 2028.
Orange requires that gateways be located in Europe to keep European customers' data in Europe and to control customer traffic when providing satellite-based services.
Orange may launch commercial D2D service using the company’s own spectrum on a country-by-country basis depending on frequency availability.
Skylo formed strategic partnerships with global operators including Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, and Orange to expand coverage and services.
Telesat announced enterprise service agreements with ADN Telecom, Orange, Viasat, and Vocus and a memorandum of understanding with Korea’s Hanwha Systems.
Space Intel Report published a post titled "Telcos Orange, Deutsche Telekom: We’ll only buy EU Iris2 constellation capacity if it’s competitive."
Orange will only buy capacity from the EU Iris2 constellation if the capacity is competitive.
MasOrange is partially owned by the French telco Orange.