Orange outage cuts mobile calls and data for customers across France

Orange, the largest telecoms operator in France, lost much of its mobile network on Wednesday.

From about 11:20 CEST, customers nationwide could not make calls, send texts or use mobile data, and by early afternoon the company had not named a cause.

An Orange spokesperson told Reuters that the fault was causing major problems for customers nationwide. Technical teams were working to identify the cause and restore service, the spokesperson said. Orange also acknowledged the problem in a French post…