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THE FUTURE OF FIXED TELEPHONY its SOHO gateway that was launched in April customers will not have to return to the on fixed devices, as Joyn on both mobile and 2012. From then on, all business customers – shop with a faulty device fixed networks would be a real asset for telcos and there are now over 150,000 of them – in • it provides an easy way of adding new against OTT players. For the moment, however, France who are using the Livebox Pro can services to customers on existing devices we cannot reveal details. benefit from HD Voice with up to five HD Last but not least, CAT-iq is an operator- phones connected to the box. In 2015 and beyond, our strategy is to bring CAT 2.1 features to the handset. For example, visual voicemail is a very important feature that we want to make available to our customers, most of whom want it as it offers a better user experience. Despite DECT being a The Livebox Pro V3 with built-in DECT CAT-iq 2.0 base safe wireless technology, customers are also asking for a greener, zero radio emission only business right now - even if sales figures In 2014, Orange will continue with CAT-iq mode, so we will provide this. are good, big success will only come when the telephony enriching its CAT-iq device More generally, Orange is thinking about retail market decides to go CAT-iq. Until that portfolio, underlining the importance of how to enrich the customer experience at happens, Orange will help any new market offering customers a wider choice of devices. home, such as how to mix voice calls, along entrant to test its handsets against our At the same time, with CAT-iq 2.0 up and with other promises. We think we can Liveboxes, enabling them to be more running, the goal is to take another step with leverage the CAT-iq base in our Livebox in confident about interoperability by knowing the standard in the form of a firmware order to bring DECT ULE into the home their device is compatible with Orange upgrade offering CAT-iq 3.0. We believe this is environment. Another idea around this would Gateways. an important feature for two main reasons: be to mix standard communication and smart Orange is confident in the future of CAT-iq home use cases, for instance using HD phones and we strongly believe interesting things can • it allows us to upgrade the devices over the as improved sensors. We also believe we could be done in the area of the fixed telephony. air in a very simple manner, which means disrupt the market by enabling RCS (aka Joyn) Success is at hand, so stay tuned! DECT Today - The Success Story Continues · www.dect.org 11