Lausanne (ots) - Orange Communications SA, Lausanne, celebrated its fifth birthday in Switzerland with a relay race in which 700 employees from all over Switzerland took part. Together, they covered a total distance of 1,120 kilometres, raising more than CHF 10,000 for Unicef in the process. This year, the Orange Group is celebrating a landmark birthday in fourteen countries. Ten years ago, the Orange brand was ...
Lausanne (ots) - 300 minutes worth of calls on their mobile to all networks and 50 SMS for just CHF 95.- a month. Exclusive 300 may be combined with various Orange options (e.g. Travel for cheaper calls abroad) and is especially attractive for regular mobile phone users. This new price plan Exclusive 300 can be subscribed from 2 July until 21 September 2004. Anyone who spends on average 10 minutes a day on their ...
Lausanne (ots) - To offer every single customer exactly what interests him or her personally, that's what Orange is aiming at with its offers: The new portal for mobile phones (Orange World) offers something for everybody. Personal customer care from specialists (Orange Coach) will be extended further. Customers only pay for what they need (price plans and ...
Lausanne (ots) - Orange is supplementing its SPV offering with the SPV M1000, a personal digital assistant that can also makes calls. The SPV M1000 offers the user when using professionally a fast synchronisation of data from company server. This allows him constant access to his emails, calendar appointments, contact data and task lists, no matter where he is. As a ...
Lausanne (ots) - From May 2004, Orange customers can take advantage of up to 40% cheaper mobile calls in more than 170 countries with the extended Travel Option. The Travel Option is now available for as little as CHF 5.- per month and for just one month's subscription. This means that Orange customers who only travel abroad once a year can also ...
Lausanne (ots) - From autumn 2004, Orange is offering its customers access to over 8,000 WLAN hotspots at home and abroad. Users can now sign up at hotspots using a safer and user-friendlier authentication procedure via SIM card technology. This method makes it possible in future to switch seamlessly from GPRS to WLAN and UMTS. Orange has signed a series of ...
Lausanne (ots) - The news is that Orange PrePay customers can now quickly, simply and conveniently recharge their mobile phones in over 2,000 post office locations. From May, owners of Yellow Accounts will additionally be able to recharge their Orange PrePay accounts with their Postcard at any Swiss Postomat. Thanks to this new service, you will no longer have to buy PrePay cards every time you want to recharge the ...
Lausanne (ots) - Orange Communications SA, Lausanne, achieved total revenue of CHF 1'169 million in 2003. At the same time, the operating result was increased 266% compared to the previous year. By end 2003, Orange Switzerland numbered 1'085'000 active customers (+12,7%). The Orange total revenue rose from CHF 1'018 million to CHF 1'169 million in 2003, thus ...
Lausanne (ots) - Up until now, only Orange customers who bought a pre-configured mobile phone could send multimedia messages (MMS) or access WAP services immediately after purchase. Anyone who opted for a mobile phone which was not set up for data services had to configure it him or herself. It's true that it's easy to configure a mobile phone using the ...
News and entertainment by video on your mobile phone Lausanne (ots) - To coincide with the arrival of the SPV, the first Microsoft Windows-powered mobile phone, about a year ago, Orange launched a mobile portal specifically for the all-in-one mobile and mini-PC. For the first time, it was possible for users to view film trailers or the day's headlines as a video sequence on their mobile phone at the press of a button. ...
New offer with two new price plans and a multimedia option Lausanne (ots) - Orange is offering new customers opting for Orange between 17th November and 31st January two new price plans: Orange Personal 30 and Orange Personal 100. The new price plans include 30 or 100 free talk time minutes every month for calls to all Swiss fixed and mobile networks. However, anyone subscribing before the end of January 2004 can ...
Lausanne (ots) - During the first half-year 2003 Orange Communications SA, Lausanne, realized a result of 120 (33) million Swiss francs prior to interest, tax and writing-off. This increased the operational result (EBITDA) by 264% compared with the same period last year. The number of customers surpassed one million for the first time and reached 1,003,000 (+14.6%) ...
Lausanne (ots) - Orange has re-designed its website. Thanks to still easier navigation, visitors-both business and private customers-will find their way around the website even better now. A few clicks and they will be able to benefit free of charge from a great number of features, services and information. The new Orange internet page offer a full transparency ...
Lausanne (ots) - Gone are the days when Orange PrePay customers had to buy a PrePay Card, scratch the surface to reveal the code and call the Recharge Hotline to recharge their PrePay account. Thanks to the new Orange Recharge service, PrePay accounts can in future simply be recharged electronically by going to ...
Lausanne (ots) - For the first time in Switzerland, and only with Orange and in4U AG, very small, small and medium businesses can now synchronise Microsoft Outlook applications and data (emails, calendar entries, contacts and to-do lists) with the Orange SPV and the Orange SPV E100 directly via GPRS, without the ...
Lausanne (ots) - In just four years Orange has built up its very own, ultra-modern network stretching across Switzerland and offering coverage to more than 98% of the population. Thanks to this excellent network, Orange is no longer reliant on the National Roaming Service offered in partnership with Swisscom ...
New design, more comfortable to use, boosted performance Lausanne (ots) - With the SPV E 100 Orange is launching a new all-in-one device (Smart Device) in the sound picture video family. The SPV E 100 makes it even easier and more enjoyable to swap emails while on the move, look up contact lists, make calendar entries and to-do lists, surf the Internet, watch video news coverage, etc.. The new Microsoft Windows supported software version 1.50 significantly boosts the ...
ePayment: Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) Lausanne (ots) - As of October 2003, all Orange customers who have a yellow PostFinance account will be able to pay their Orange bills simply and comfortably via the Internet in just three clicks. This is the final component of the Orange electronic information and transaction offer for customers with a fixed Price Plan. A secure Internet connection has ...
Lausanne (ots) - 30 minutes of mobile calls every day to the Swiss Orange network and the Swiss fixed network for just CHF 1 per day - now available to Orange customers with the Everyday 30 option. That means that for the first time Orange is reducing the per-minute price for standard mobile calls in the evening, at weekends and on public holidays to less than CHF ...
MSN Messenger and Hotmail on mobile phones Lausanne (ots) - - Access to mobile MSN messaging and Hotmail services via SMS for over 40 million Orange customers - Available on a wide range of phones and operating systems - no need to buy a new phone - Orange becomes the first mobile operator to offer MSN services Europe-wide. Orange ...
Lausanne (ots) - Orange will be making some changes to its network settings to make calling whilst abroad as easy as pie. And all Orange customers will automatically receive these new settings via an SMS sent to their mobile phone, enabling them to take advantage of this new service without further ado. For Orange users abroad on holiday or on business, checking ...
Lausanne (ots) - Network coverage and quality, price/performance ratio, customer orientation and flexibility - these were the criteria used by Coop to choose Orange for all of its mobile communications needs. The changeover will be complete by the end of February when some 2'200 Coop employees will speak Orange. The intensive investigation and tender phase ...
Lausanne (ots) - After an intensive four-year build-up phase of rapid growth, Orange Switzerland is consolidating to guarantee its continued success. The consolidation will include a revised organisational structure affecting approximately 200 out of its current 1692 employees this year. At the Orange site in Biel several functions are to be brought together, ...
Crèche for the children of employees of Orange Lausanne (ots) - Having managed the project to set up a crèche for the children of employees in Lausanne, Orange Communications SA opened its doors on 19th August to take in some 44 small children. To celebrate the event and to see the place for themselves, the canton and municipal authorities, as well as the parents and children, have been invited this Saturday 9th ...
Orange is both aware of its social responsibilities and acts upon them Lausanne (ots) - For Orange the main focus is on people. That is why Orange is introducing a worldwide Corporate Social Responsibility Programme. The aim of the programme is to be aware of its social responsibilities as a company and thus to contribute towards a sustainable development of society. Orange UK, Orange France and Orange Switzerland in ...
Lausanne (ots) - In the first half of 2002, Orange Communications SA, Lausanne, achieved EBITDA earnings of 33 (48) million francs. Year-on-year, operating results fell 31%. This is as a result of increased spending on marketing and sales and the training of the almost 1,600 employees on the one hand, and investment in improving the mobile network, knowledge centres ...
An Orange Shop in Lugano Lausanne (ots) - On the 4th July 2002 Orange will open an Orange Shop in Lugano, its first in Ticino. Thus, three years after entering the market, Orange is now represented by nine sales outlets in Switzerland: in Basel, Bern, Biel and Geneva and, with two sales points each, Lausanne and ...
Lausanne (ots) - In September 2001 Orange introduced GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) to Switzerland with both its Orange Express and Orange Express Plus price plan options. Many customers took advantage of the introductory offers until the end of June 2002 and have subjected GPRS to a thorough test. On the ...
24 hours of free calls Lausanne (ots) - Three years ago, on 29th June 1999, Orange Communications SA entered the Swiss market as the third mobile communication provider. Since then Orange has convinced almost a million customers to choose its services and products and has established itself as a quality mobile provider with a market share of 18%. Reason enough to be ...