Orange Romania is the mobile telecommunications market leader in Romania with over 10.6 million customers in September 2022 and over 6000 employees. ORO is part of the Orange Group, one of the largest multi-national corporations in the world with a strong leadership in innovation and over 272 million customers over 5 continents. ORO has invested well above 2.5 billion EUR since 1997 and is constantly investing in the network development, new technologies, product and services. In the Romanian market, ORO has been the first operator to launch new technologies like EDGE, HSDPA, Blackberry solution, HD Voice, Extra Signal solution using Femtocells, Operator Wi-Fi / Passpoint, OTT TV stick, VoLTE and VoWi-Fi as well as the 1st operator to introduce 4G+ based on carrier aggregation technology and to demonstrate 1Gbps. ORO was first within the Orange footprint to launch 5G. The ORO 5G network offers maximum download speeds of up to 1.2 Gbps and average speeds of 600 Mbps.

Positioning itself as a leader in Research, Development and High-Tech Telecommunications, ORO features a Technical Department, managing existing and new technologies, products and services and piloting their techno-economical assessment and integration in the network: VoLTE services, migration towards a future proof multi-VAS platform, Network Function Virtualization, Software-Defined Networking use cases testing and cloud native applications. ORO combines the scientific potential of academic per9sonnel with the skills of its engineers in market-oriented and creativity of students (the most demanding and technologically aware community) in order to create an environment designed for innovative testing and new services development. ORO offers its clients, individuals and companies, a complete range of communication solutions, from basic services up to integrated solutions for voice and mobile and fixed data. In addition, the Development & Innovation team is coordinating Orange Educational Program, Orange Fab Romania accelerator, Innovation Labs pre-accelerator and several Horizon Europe research and innovation projects on various topics such 5G PPP technologies and systems, next generation emergency services and critical infrastructure security.