
The wholesale activity is relatively unknown by the general public because its customers are operators. It consists of selling and buying voice or data traffic in bulk.
Given the strong growth of international traffic volumes, wholesale has become a full-fledged business. In 2011, the wholesale traffic was estimated to account for more than 60% of the global international voice market, with almost 272 billion minutes.
France Telecom-Orange’s presence in both the retail and wholesale markets means it can develop wholesale solutions that are particularly well adapted to the needs of local retail operators. It also allows Orange to constantly adapt its wholesale solutions to its customers’ needs. Part of the top 5 wholesale voice traffic operators, Orange has more than one thousand customers which include fixed-line and mobile operators and Internet access and content providers across the world.
Orange’s Wholesale Solutions activity is based on a major long distance network infrastructure and offers a worldwide connectivity and a broad range of destinations (over 950) for the international voice traffic. Orange offers turnkey solutions or customized services for voice, mobile, Internet and bandwidth. With dedicated wholesale teams on four continents, combined with leading-edge networks and investments in research and innovation, the Group offers high quality services and constantly innovative solutions.
in 2012, Orange launched two new wholesale offers
- multiservice IP eXchange is a solution for mobile and fixed-line operators that provides more efficient connectivity between networks, notably for international traffic.
- @first is the first fully-integrated wholesale offer that provides large protection for telecoms operators against fraudulent interaction with networks for on-net and off-net calls.










