Orange Belgium is committed to act as a responsible operator and to promote the most sustainable practices. It therefore decided to launch the Eco Rating, a label offering key information to customers on the sustainability score of devices to help them make educated choices. Orange Belgium will also launch a brand-new program to federate its initiatives: Re, for Repair, Refurbish, Recycle and Return (also known as the highly successful BuyBack program).

As of today, Orange Belgium is gradually opening its 5G network in Belgium, using the temporary spectrum allowed by the national regulator BIPT. Every eligible postpaid customer, including those of its b-brand hey! will be able to discover a much faster network experience, at no additional cost.

After the inauguration of its first 5G Lab in Antwerp in October 2021, Orange Belgium forged a partnership with the iconic Grand Poste of Liège, veritable hub dedicated to creative companies and innovation. The objective of the 5G Lab in Liège is to demystify this new technology and demonstrate its possibilities and applications. The lab will also be used to develop and test out innovative and concrete new 5G applications in collaboration with customers, prospects and partners.

Orange Belgium officially opened its first Orange 5G Lab in Antwerp this morning, inviting companies to discover, test and develop new innovative use cases on 5G Stand Alone network technology. The Lab will join the Orange’s international network of seven other Labs across Europe, fostering collaboration and innovation on an unprecedented level.

As a responsible operator, Orange Belgium is fully dedicated to offering its support to the people who were affected by the floods this summer in Belgium and who, almost 3 months later, still need help. The company therefore collected as much material help as possible: after offering more than 350 palettes of first need goods (clothes, sanitary products, pet food), it will now offer about 10 tons of furniture and electronic devices.

The heavy floods are largely disrupting the life of many Belgian citizens and, as a responsible operator, Orange Belgium intends to do its part in not only maintaining (and restoring where needed) connectivity in the impacted areas, but also helping the families in need. Therefore as from tomorrow 17/07/2021 Orange Belgium turns its more than 100 shops into collection points where all people can leave items to help the people who lost their homes.

Orange Belgium invests in the deployment of 'fiber-to-the-premise' (or “FTTP”) pilots in Brussels. Orange Belgium will start the rollout in Evere and Ixelles, where 15.000 residents and businesses will have the opportunity to benefit from an open and future-proof optical fiber network enabling multi-gigabits speeds. Orange Belgium will benefit from the Orange Group high skills and experience to provide a next generation open fiber network which will be accessible at passive level to any interested telecom service operator to connect and rely on their own active network equipment.

Despite a challenging context, Orange Belgium is moving forward with Orange Fab, its acceleration programme for start-ups. After a thorough preselection and pitch process, Iristick, OTIV and MyPitch will be joining the 4th season of the programme, allowing them to innovate on 5G applications within the global framework of the Orange Group and its 18 Orange Fabs all over the world.

The Belgian railway company SNCB has again awarded a large-scale contract to Orange Belgium. Orange will provide connectivity for approximately 13,000 employees and 11,000 connected devices ranging from smartphones and tablets for ticket collectors to train drivers, screens or ticketing machines and smart parking solutions.

As from today the customers of Waasland Shopping will enjoy a brand new experience, thanks to Orange Belgium’s smart parking solution. Based on sensors, smart cameras and a mobile application, the smart parking solutions allows, for instance, customers to be directly guided to available parking spots through their mobile device.