Orange Belgium welcomes a new virtual operator on its network: Neibo

Orange Belgium and Neibo announced today that they have reached an agreement allowing Neibo’s future customers to use Orange Belgium’s leading 4G network for the coming years.

Orange Belgium is happy to welcome Neibo, Belgium’s first mobile telephony cooperative, on its mobile network. Neibo chose the cooperative model to pursue a fairer economy with the ambition to allocate its profits in sustainable and local businesses only.

Following a call for funds of 250,000 euros, Neibo is currently putting the final touches to its commercial offer and as of September 2019, its customers will be able to call, text and surf seamlessly via the Orange Belgium network. Neibo called on Effortel, the leading global Mobile Virtual Network Enabler, to provide the technology needed to launch Neibo MVNO.

Werner De Laet, Chief Enterprise, Innovation & Wholesale Officer of Orange Belgium, explains: “I am very happy to start this new collaboration with the first entirely citizen-led cooperative in Belgium. Thanks to our top-performing 4G network that covers nearly 100% of the Belgian population, Neibo’s customers will benefit from advanced mobile solutions”.

Neibo CEO Quentin Verstappen confirms: “Our original set-up as a full-fledged co-operative for and by citizens is taking shape and I am delighted that our customers will be able to benefit from Orange Belgium’s state-of-the art mobile network shortly. Effortel’s thorough expertise and experience in enabling advanced MVNOs around the world was also very important to us”.

Arkadi Panitch, CEO of Effortel, adds: “As a specialist in enabling innovative MVNO business models, we are excited to welcome a cooperative-based MVNO on our global platform along with bank, retail, fin tech and media MVNOs all over the world”.

Isabelle Vanden Eede

Press contact, Orange Belgium

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Orange Belgium is one of the major telecommunication operators on the Belgian market, with revenues of 1,749 million euros in 2023 and over 3 million customers on 31 December 2023, and in Luxembourg, via its subsidiary Orange Communications Luxembourg. Thanks to its own fixed and mobile networks, Orange Belgium offers both residential and business customers fixed and mobile connectivity services and convergent offerings (internet, telephony, television, including original TV content: Be tv, VOOsport, etc.). As a responsible operator, Orange Belgium invests to reduce its ecological footprint and promote sustainable and inclusive digital practices. Orange Belgium is also a wholesale operator, offering its partners access to its infrastructure as well as a broad portfolio of connectivity and mobility services, including offerings based on Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Orange Belgium is a subsidiary of the Orange Group, present in 26 countries with a total customer base of 298 million customers worldwide on 31 December 2023. The Group is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies under the brand Orange Business.

Orange Belgium is listed on the Brussels Stock Exchange (OBEL).

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