artificial intelligence<\/a> and cybersecurity services, and integrate civilian and military networks, targeted at defence ministries, security operators and related industries.<\/p>\nWHY IT’S IMPORTANT<\/p>\n
European companies are set to benefit from countries’ growing defence budgets as the continent seeks home-grown alternatives to rely less on the United States.<\/p>\n
NATO members agreed earlier in June to bring their defence spending target to 5% of gross domestic product by 2035.<\/p>\n
France is also leading Europe’s efforts to secure communications by raising its stake and spearheading a capital increase plan for satellite operator and Starlink rival Eutelsat.<\/p>\n
KEY QUOTES<\/p>\n
“We are ideally positioned to meet the rapidly evolving needs of this highly specialized sector, which relies on civil solutions,” said Nassima Auvray, who will lead the new division.<\/p>\n
Several hundred experts will be brought together from various group entities within Orange to work on the division, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n
CONTEXT<\/p>\n
Orange owns and operates seven cable ships that install and maintain underwater telecom cables, critical infrastructure that has become a focus of European security concerns amid reports of Russian sabotage attempts.<\/p>\n
Other telecoms companies aiming to pivot to defence include Finland’s Nokia which will jointly develop tactical networks for the German armed forces.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Gianluca Lo Nostro and Jerome Terroy in Gdansk, editing by Milla Nissi-Prussak)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -French telecoms operator Orange is establishing a new defence and homeland security division as it steps up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[89694,89693,2000,299,24405,36,77024,15461,89692,89691],"class_list":{"0":"post-227810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-defence-budgets","9":"tag-defence-ministries","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european-companies","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-homeland-security","15":"tag-orange","16":"tag-orange-business","17":"tag-specialised-division"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114774890505595740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}