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Orange is a major telecommunications company, initially a division of Hutchison Whampoa and a successor to their failed point to point mobile telephone system known as Rabbit. Despite being originally from the UK, it has been acquired by France Telecom and is thus their mobile branch. It is present in many parts of the world, including Australia, India - Mumbai only, France, United Kingdom, Israel, Switzerland and Romania (see Orange Romania).
Orange belongs to the Freemove cell phone alliance.
The name and brand of the Orange group are used under license by Hutchinson Whampoa in Australia. Thus, although equally branded, Orange Australia does not belong to the Orange Group. Note that Orange Australia uses CDMA ( QualcommQualcomm is a wireless telecommunications research and development company based in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1985 by Irwin Jacobs and Andrew Viterbi, who previously founded Linkabit. Qualcomm's first products and services included the Omni's cdmaONE, aka IS-95Interim Standard 95 (IS-95 is the first CDMA-based digital cellular standard pioneered by Qualcomm. The brand name for IS-95 is cdmaOne . It is now being supplanted by IS-2000. It is used in the US and in Korea. mobile telephony standards.) cell phone technology, while the rest of the Orange companies use GSM.