Orange Moldova
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
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| Founded | Chișinău, Moldova (1998) |
| Founder | Luc Solente |
| Headquarters | Alba Iulia 75 street, Chișinău, Moldova |
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Area served
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Moldova |
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Key people
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Julien Ducarroz (Director) |
| Services |
Mobile phone services Internet carrier |
| Revenue |
 € 172 million (2000) |
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Number of employees
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Around 950 (2011) |
| Parent | Orange S.A. (94.31%) |
| Website | orange.md |
Orange Moldova is a subsidiary of Orange S.A. operating in Moldova since April 1998. The company is also an internet service provider and fixed voice services (point-to-point) provider for business.
At this time, Orange has GSM coverage of 99.4% of the population, and 98.9% of the country's territory, plus 88.5% of 3G services. Orange owns 65.4% of the telecommunications market and serves two million subscribers.
Communication standard: Orange works with GSM 900 and 1800 MHz and UMTS 2100 MHz, LTE 2600 MHZ.
Numbering resources:
Orange network codes are: 068xxxxxx ; 069xxxxxx ; 060xxxxxx ; 0610xxxxx; 0611xxxxx; 0620xxxxx; 0621xxxxx.
Internationally they have the form: +37368xxxxxx ; +37369xxxxxx ; +37360xxxxxx ; +373610xxxxx...
Network code: 259 01, where 259 — Mobile Country Code (MCC) for Moldova, and 01 — Mobile Network Code (MNC) for Orange network.
Displayed on the phone screen: Orange, MD Orange, VOXTEL, TEMPO, or 259 01 depending on the phone.
The joint-stock company was created in February 1998, under the name of Voxtel. The license was acquired for $8M USD. The company started its activity as a commercial entity on October 27, 1998. The first call was made by former president of France Jacques Chirac in the presence of Moldova's former president Petru Lucinschi and mass-media representatives.
On April 19, 2006, the company's shareholders decided that VOXTEL and Tempo become Orange. A year after the decision of the shareholders (April 25, 2007), VOXTEL announced the launch of Orange, which opened new perspectives for Moldova's mobile market.
In 1998, Orange (which was still known as Voxtel) was the only mobile telephony services provider in the country. Given the licensing agreement with the government, the company was to have exclusive rights for 5 years. However, in 1999 the second GSM license was given to the company Moldcell and it began its activity in April 2000.
Due to the new competitor, Orange (still Voxtel at that point) launched the first pre-paid packages (Tempo) on the Moldovan market.
Starting March 1, 2007 a third mobile operator launched. The new operator, Unite, operates with the CDMA standard and is owned by the national telecommunications company Moldtelecom. The license was obtained without any competition in July 2006.
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