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Trade magazine Connect: Orange has the most reliable network in Austria

- “Reliability record“ for Orange in the countryside
- Overall network test result: “Excellent“

In a network test carried out by the biggest European telecoms magazine Connect has proven to be the most reliable network provider in all of Austria. For 99.3 percent of test calls made by the German trade magazine Connect no fault was found with Orange in cities. The result in the countryside was 98.6 percent. “In Austria, where coverage is generally difficult, this constitutes a reliability record“, writes “Connect“.

Connect has rated the Orange network “excellent“ and ranked it among the best in the German-speaking region. In the overall quality assessment of voice calls Orange has left behind other big mobile telephony providers.

According to Connect with a 99.8 percent success rate in Austria Orange was also front runner when it came to data connections. E-mails arrive with 100 percent certainty on the mobile phone. Orange performed also well when it came to the speed of data connections.

“It is important to us that our customers can rely on our services which they really need. The overall network test result of “excellent“is a great recognition of our targeted quality strategy“, says Elmar Grasser, Orange CTO in Austria.

Conclusion of Connect: "In many disciplines in Austria Orange is completely convincing. Important for many customers: the reliability and expansion outside urban areas is exemplary.“

For the tests published in the current edition Connect conducted a total of about 10,000 test calls in Switzerland and Austria and almost as often tested the Internet. Ratings were made in cities as well as the countryside. For this purpose testers covered a distance of almost 2,000 kilometers. The objective was to compare the results for current measurements in Germany. Swiss as well as Austrian providers in many cases have outperformed German competitors despite the difficult supply situation due to the mountains.