Orange UK, the leading telco group owned by France Telecom, has just announced that they will bbe shedding 2,000 employees and restructuring as they merge their mobile phone unit and their ISP, called Wanadoo. Both will now be branded Orange.
This may seem to many of you to be the most uninteresting piece of business news so far this year (unless of course you work for Orange), but it points yet again to telco's driving convergence amongst their various units and packaging triple plays that consumers are eating up.
And in the UK they need to for they have one of the most advanced triple and quadruple play markets in the world thanks to early moves from BT and NTL/Virgin. And with BSkyB launching theirs in a couple of months it is little surprise that Orange need to restructure and launch their consumer packages aggressively.
You never know, "the future looks bright" and the future may even be Orange's - and clearly not Wanadoo's!
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