Orange is Bringing Together French Companies to Test and Develop 5G Uses
18 April 2019 - 7:15PM
Business Wire
At the Orange Business Summit, which has brought together more
than 1,000 enterprise-customers of Orange Business Services,
Stéphane Richard, the Orange Group’s Chairman & CEO, presented
Orange’s ambition and commitment to work with businesses to develop
future uses of 5G. The event took place in the presence of Agnès
Pannier-Runacher, Secretary of State to the Minister of the Economy
and Finance, and Philippe Varin, President of France Industrie, who
respectively underlined the challenges that 5G will represent for
the competitiveness of France’s economy and its industry.
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“5G will not be just another new development in mobile uses.
This is a technological leap that announces a significant
transformation of business models for all companies and in all
sectors of activity. To take advantage of the opportunities
available, companies must anticipate their application cases
without delay, and we, operators, must be fully mobilized to
support them and develop solutions that meet their needs. The story
of 5G has to be written together. More broadly, we must make every
effort to make France one of the leading countries in the
development of 5G. This future network is an opportunity to unite
and consolidate all our resources, our know-how, our advanced
industries, our French Tech and our talents at the service of our
country,” said Stéphane Richard, Chairman & CEO of the Orange
Group.
This approach based on anticipation and support was illustrated
through the announcement of several joint innovation projects with
companies that are market leaders in key sectors of the economy,
such as the manufacturing industry, energy or transport, and that
have an eye on the future.
Building the electronic factory of the future with the
LACROIX GroupThe hi-tech manufacturer and SME with an
international reach, LACROIX Group, and Orange are entering into a
joint innovation partnership to explore how 5G can be used within
“Symbiose”, the ground-breaking prototype factory project from the
LACROIX Group. In this way, the manufacturer is positioning itself
at the cutting edge of technology by carrying out trials on uses of
5G in partnership with Orange. These trials will involve setting up
an indoor network to test ambient connectivity on the industrial
site or optimising production using automated vehicles and other
vehicles connected through 5G.
Testing 5G opportunities at the heart of industrial processes
with Schneider ElectricSchneider Electric, a leader in the
digital transformation of energy management and automated
processes, and Orange are working together to evaluate the
feasibility of opportunities brought by 5G in industrial production
processes. From the end of 2019, an initial test will assess the
value of 5G for real-time augmented reality solutions used by
maintenance technicians at the Schneider Electric factory in
Vaudreuil (Eure).
Developing co-operation between intelligent vehicles with
RenaultRenault, Orange and Ericsson are announcing their
ambition to work together on connected vehicles and 5G. This
cooperation project will aim to measure the capacity of 5G to
enrich communications between vehicles and their environment, i.e.
other vehicles, highway infrastructure such as traffic lights, or
road users for example. By providing vehicles with more information
about what is around them, mobile networks will contribute to
keeping traffic moving and improving road safety. Performance tests
are planned on a system based on a hybrid V2X (vehicle to anything)
architecture, including network slicing (a feature of 5G that
assigns a slice of network to a specific use) and Mobile Edge
Computing technologies to improve cloud performance.
Imagining new in-station services with SNCFOrange is
working in partnership with SNCF and Nokia within the framework of
a 5G experiment to provide a high-speed, HD video download service
for passengers at the Rennes train station. Orange will launch the
service in 2020 once the French regulator Arcep has delivered the
requisite authorization. Once operational, passengers travelling
through the station will be able to connect to the 5G access point
deployed there. They will be able to download videos to their
mobile or tablet in a few seconds, enabling them to watch the film
during their train journey. The experimental network will use
frequencies in the 26 GHz band. The aim is to assess the benefits
of the 5G network and to collect feedback from passengers who have
taken part in the test. At a later stage, additional services will
also be tested locally, either for the general public or for
businesses, as part of this experiment.
Also in the mobility sector, RATP (the public transport operator
in Paris) and Orange will launch, for the first time in France, a
5G experiment for autonomous and connected public transport
vehicles in the Paris region during 2019. This experiment is being
carried out within the framework of the joint innovation agreement
between the two companies.
In parallel to developments carried out in partnership with
other companies, the Orange Group will continue to implement its 5G
deployment strategy. 5G connections will be installed in 17 towns
and cities in Europe in 2019, ready for commercial release in
2020.
About OrangeOrange is one of the world’s leading
telecommunications operators with sales of €41 billion in 2018
and has 151,000 employees worldwide at 31 December 2018, including
92,000 employees in France. The Group has a total customer base of
more than 264 million customers at 31 December 2018, including 204
million mobile customers and 20 million fixed broadband customers
worldwide. The Group is present in 27 countries. Orange is also a
leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to
multinational companies, under the Orange Business Services brand.
In March 2015, the Group presented its new strategic plan
Essentials2020, which places customers’ experience at the heart of
its strategy with the aim of allowing them to benefit fully from
the digital universe and the power of its new generation
networks.
Orange is listed on Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New
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