Orange Wholesale was named Best Wholesale Operator at the 2025 World Communication Awards. The independent jury appreciated how Orange Wholesale successfully transformed its business with product innovation and network softwarization, leading to increased customer satisfaction and profitability. This completes Orange Wholesale’s “Grand Slam” of major best wholesale operator industry distinctions in 2025.
Orange Wholesale shined at the 2025 World Communication Awards ceremony held December 9 in London, pocketing a highly deserved Best Wholesale Operator award. The jury noted «A highly competitive category, the Best Wholesale Operator Award goes to Orange Wholesale! They demonstrated remarkable agility, evolving their business model through a strong blend of customer-led innovation, technology, and collaborative partnerships. A global leader! »
Showcasing telco wholesale business transformation across NaaS, CDN, satellite, softwarization
The connectivity provider prevailed over well-established industry names by showcasing industry-centric innovations driving customer-focused satisfaction.
This distinction highlighted the wholesaler’s successful business transformation, with network softwarization enabling the release of game-changing connectivity solutions like 5G CnaaS, Click or Ground-Segment as a Service.
What makes Orange Wholesale the Best Wholesale Operator?
Orange Wholesale stands as the world’s most global wholesaler, with €5.9bn in revenue, over 100 solutions, and 3,300 expert staff in 29 locations.
But what truly stands out for this Best Wholesale Operator at the World Communication Award is the success of its far-reaching transformation achieved with:
- Global, softwarized networks , expert teams, and strong CSR commitments (training teams in AI and eco-designing new solutions).
- bold partnering strategies to move the market forward, with softwarization augmented by Red Hat and Drivenets, and satellite connectivity projects with Greenerwave, Skynopy, Miratlas and Cailabs.
These assets enabled Orange Wholesale to design 11 new voice, mobile, security, and data connectivity solutions answering or even anticipating the needs of its 1,300 customers worldwide, including:
- LiveSpace Mobile backhaul — multi-orbit mobile connectivity in underserved areas;
- Welcome Travelers — roaming on eSIM;
- Premium DDoS protection using Threat Mitigation Systems ;
- Cloud Connect on EVPL ;
- the Click NaaS platform;
- 5G Core Network as-a-Service — a world first for a Tier‑1 wholesaler;
- Ground Segment as-a-Service to make diversified, affordable, multi-orbit satellite connectivity available on-demand;
- API-connected digital connectivity management for MVNOs.
This customer-centricity results in exceptional customer satisfaction, telecom analyst appreciation and business numbers.
Orange Wholesale: the world’s preferred wholesale operator
The World Communication Awards were not the only independent industry observers to take note of these achievements, as this Best Wholesale Provider award completes a “Grand Slam” of all three major similar distinctions, after Carrier Community Global Awards’ Best Global Carrier prize, and a Best Global Connectivity Provider – Data trophy at Global Connectivity Awards.
Orange Wholesale continues its streak as the most awarded global wholesale connectivity provider since the market's inception.