Stéphane Richard announced Thursday morning the news of the season at Orange, at the “show Hello”. The CEO of the operator announced Thursday morning availability in November to its customers, platform video on demand Netflix. After the “show Hello”, in which the CEO of Orange unveiled the new re-entry, he spoke in front of our camera on Hurricane Netflix. Then spoke about the merger between SFR and Numericable, which will lead to the creation of its main competitor in France.
WATCH Stéphane Richard, CEO of Orange, talks about Netflix:
“I have not announced it there would be no Netflix at Orange, I announced that there would be no Netflix at launch “, Stéphane Richard was justified. Today, the stage is set for Orange “welcomes serenely the new service.” “And then another operator has suggested,” Has he acknowledged, referring to the announcement of Bouygues Telecom. So the pressure of the competitor who decided Orange? “The fact that another operator has taken this decision (…) is to be considered in the landscape,” he concedes.
Thursday morning at a time where Stéphane Richard was on stage, the culture minister Fleur Pellerin felt it would “ensure that audiovisual services subscribe to future legal obligations of countries to which they are destined.” In Focus, Netflix, which operates from Luxembourg (soon since the Netherlands), and thus escapes many French legal constraints. When asked by us about it, Stéphane Richard smiles: “I totally understand that point of view (…) It is the prerogative of public authorities to organize the system and ensure that fills Netflix -. or not – its legal obligations, “he said. “Right now this is the case, they launched their service, but I’m all for that we maintain the rules of the French cultural exception,” concluded the CEO.
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Regarding the merger between SFR and Numericable, which will lead to the creation of the main competitor of Orange in France, Stephane Richard said he was “quite open and supports this operation. ”
WATCH Stéphane Richard evokes the merger SFR-Numericable:
“I’m all for competition,” said Stéphane Richard. “There are not many areas other than mobile phones where there is such a level of competition in this country, so I’m not afraid of competition,” he said. On the approximation SFR-Numericable, the CEO of Orange remains stoic. “I am not hostile in principle to the operation, I understand the meaning of the operation I will be very careful to ensure that a number of rules of fairness are observed, particularly in the case of ultra-fast broadband, “he has warned. There is “no reason” for the differences between the fiber and cable, held Stéphane Richard.
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