Talk:Orange (telecommunications)

message: This article is about the legal entity Orange SA. Therefore it should only really relate to the networks that actually belong to Orange, or at least France Telecom. References to Orange networks in Israel, Australia, India and Hong Kong should be deprecated or treated seprately unless this article is renamed along the lines of Orange brand...
* Well, I don't know who wrote that. It's worth remembering that these were franchisees or subsidiaries of the Orange brand, as licenced from Orange SA, until they were discontinued, or demerged. In fact, in India and Australia, the local franchises reverted to Hutchison ownership (who were the original owners of Orange after all), so it is relevant to Orange. (RM21 00:30, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ownership

message: I suggest this article to be renamed as Orange Telecom, as Orange is not a company anymore, but just a brand name used by France Telecom (which is the company).
I suggest simply Orange. It is the real brand name, not Orange Telecom and not Orange SA.Dima1 19:23, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming to Orange Telecom 

message: I think some mention should be made regarding the role Hans Snook had in the set-up of Orange back in the 90's.  I don't know enough about the subject, but I understand he had a great influence on what we know now as Orange.
Stephend01 13:18, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hans Snook 

message: The article does not seem to refer to the UK origin of the country...I would like to suggest that this is mentioned as it is a fairly important aspect of this company...Orange United Kingdom has a reference to the origin, but not the main article.  Darkieboy236 (talk) 15:24, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK Origin of the Orange name 

message: France Telecom (and through association Orange) has a 20% minority stake in Optimus Portugal (represented by Atlas Service Belgium - source: http://www.sonae.com/channelDetail.aspx?channelId=CE114251-A307-40AD-9D7E-AEC503276576)
Although France Telecom is a strategic or refrence partner it doesn't have any sort of control or joint control intrest.
85.139.150.39 (talk) 12:43, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Optimus Portugal 

message: Why is it that when Australia-related aspects of a topic are mentioned in an article, the English is atrocious? Written by Australians, maybe? (I'm an Australian so I can talk about it.) It is often worse than passages relating to other countries written by obviously non-native English speakers. It seems a lot of Australians can't do sentence structure. Maybe someone with the right sources (no refs there, either) can fix it up.—An Sealgair (talk) 03:26, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of the Orange brand by other companies 

message: I was shocked to read the following:-
: Formerly Orange PLC, the brand was created in the United Kingdom which became a subsidiary of Mannesmann in 1999 and was acquired by France Telecom in 2000.
I know that politicians have been selling us out for years, but I didn't realise they'd sold the United Kingdom to Mannesmann! :-O
Ubcule (talk) 21:01, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nice Schoolboy Howler... 

message: I propose that France Télécom be merged into Orange (telecommunications), since France Telecom just rebranded itself wholly into Orange on July 1, so basically France Telecom does not really exist anymore. Mamdu (talk) 10:58, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with merging the articles together. I'll rename the France Télécom article as Orange S.A. to reflect the name change. The content from Orange (telecommunications) could then be merged into there when ready. Bbb2007 (talk) 18:49, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

text: I agree however Orange S.A. owns Orange (telecommunications), Orange Marine and EE (telecommunications). Merging the articles would mean you would be saying a telecommunications company own 50% of another telecommunications (EE) company which may or may not be correct. Regards, Rob (talk) 22:14, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

text: Support - I just came to check something about Orange and Partner and got completely confused because there are 3 articles regarding what is essentially the same company (Partner_Communications_Company, Orange (telecommunications), Orange S.A.) Haha01haha01 (talk) 11:14, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: I've complete the merger. Future discussions at Orange S.A..--Labattblueboy (talk) 18:14, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger