en.Wedoany.com Reported - French telecom operator Orange is fully implementing its "Trust the Future" strategy through a series of new initiatives, positioning itself as a trusted partner in enterprise data and digital transformation. This strategy emphasizes data sovereignty, security compliance, and localized governance, with its latest case being a collaboration with the Rouen University Hospital (CHU de Rouen) in France.
The Rouen University Hospital oversees nine public hospitals in the Normandy region of France, and its 15,000 medical professionals will adopt Orange Business's generative/agentic AI platform, Live Intelligence. The platform aims to serve as a common framework for driving digital transformation and AI applications within the hospital network, and has already streamlined the grant application process for research teams, reducing processing time from three weeks to two days. Orange emphasizes that its AI applications are "secure" and "well-governed" solutions based on a "trusted infrastructure" to meet customer sovereignty needs. Claire Scotton, Vice President of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Orange Business, stated that the use of generative AI will allow healthcare professionals to focus more on medical work and less on administrative tasks, aiming to equip employees with agentic AI capabilities so they can concentrate on patient care.
On the security front, Orange Cyberdefense is a key pillar of its overall strategy. This division has 3,300 employees and operates 36 detection centers across 23 countries. It recently expanded into Spain through the local joint venture MasOrange, planning to establish 100 employees and a local Security Operations Center in Madrid and Barcelona. Simultaneously, it engages in international open-source collaboration by participating in the World Economic Forum's cybercrime mapping project, Cosmos, to share intelligence and combat cross-border cybercrime. Hugues Foulon, CEO of Orange Cyberdefense, stated that entering Spain will allow the company to "actively contribute to European digital sovereignty."
At the infrastructure level, Orange has joined a computing, connectivity, and power consortium called AION to bid for the EU's approximately €20 billion AI "Gigafactory" fund. Consortium members include Ardian, Artefact, Bull, EDF, Capgemini, Iliad Group, and Scaleway. Additionally, the ViaTunisia submarine cable connecting Marseille, France, to Bizerte, Tunisia, is ready for service. Meanwhile, a new ViaAfrica submarine cable route connecting Europe to South Africa is also in preparation, with landing points including the UK, France, Portugal, and several West African countries. In cloud services, Orange has launched the "Sovereign Suite" collaboration tool, Live Collaboration, hosted at its Grenoble Cloud Avenue data center, which is certified by the French cybersecurity agency ANSSI SecNumCloud. All third-party tools are based on a 100% European software stack.
In specific services, Orange Business has launched Orange Drone Guardian, Europe's first anti-drone-as-a-service solution, designed to detect and identify intruding drones across France, with plans to expand to other countries. This solution is positioned as part of a "new generation of sovereign solutions" aimed at meeting the security needs of critical infrastructure. Furthermore, Orange has signed direct-to-device (D2D) satellite agreements with AST SpaceMobile and Satellite Connect Europe, planning to demonstrate D2D connectivity in Romania in the second half of 2026 and explore specific measures to support European security requirements. Orange CEO Christel Heydemann stated that the company is committed to providing trusted, secure solutions that comply with European regulations.
In the Industry 4.0 domain, Orange Business has signed a five-year channel agreement with system integrator Tech Mahindra to drive digital transformation for global enterprise customers through AI, automation, and secure digital platforms. Orange stated it will continue to directly manage end-to-end services in key market segments, including its French operations, ensuring full compliance with French and European regulations. From the deployment at Rouen University Hospital to infrastructure investments and service launches, Orange is embedding its "trust" and "sovereignty" philosophy throughout its service architecture, encompassing cloud services, cybersecurity, and national infrastructure, while integrating its new and existing services to fully implement this strategy.
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