Russia

The group has provided services to corporate customers in Russia. It has 1,000 employees in the country and operations in all 84 regions. Orange Business Services serves more than 4,000 business customers in Russia.

In November 2007, Orange Business Services has announced that it has cleared the last step before full implementation of long distance phone licence in Russia. It is now the only worldwide communications services provider to also be a long distance operator in this country.

Orange Business Services is now very well placed to provide large and medium-sized businesses with international and national long distance services throughout the country, starting early 2008. Over the past two years, Orange installed its long distance voice infrastructure in Russia. Over US $ 200 million (approximately € 136 million) have been invested to create our next-generation MPLS-based IP backbone network in the country.

Orange Business services was the first Russian carrier to receive ISO 9001 quality system certificates for providing data and voice services. In 2004, the group won the Quality Award from the Russian Federation Ministry of Communications.