Orange switches on LTE in Paris

News Wireless France 28 JAN 2013
Orange switches on LTE in Paris
Orange France has launched LTE service in the Opera neighbourhood of Paris, ahead of its plan to cover the entire city by the end of the year and one day before rival SFR launches LTE in the La Defense area of the city. Orange currently offers 4G services to business customers only. It opened its LTE network in Marseille in June 2012 and extended it to Lyon, Nantes and Lille in November of that year. The operator intends to open 4G in 15 more cities in April, starting on 4 April. The next LTE cities will be Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Chartre, Orleans, Dunkirk, Nancy, Metz, Clermond-Ferrand, Grenoble and Annecy. Orange has also announced a range of new H+/LTE devices becoming available on 7 February, including the Samsung Galaxy SIII 4G, Galaxy Note II 4G, Nokia Lumia 920, HTC One SV, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 4G tablet and Huawei E5776 pocket modem. The Sony Xperia Z smartphone will be available in March. The devices will be sold with Origami, Open and Let's Go 4G/H+ contracts ahead of a consumer 4G service launch in April.

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