{"id":1045333,"date":"2026-10-28T07:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045333"},"modified":"2026-10-28T07:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:06:56","slug":"orange-raises-2026-profit-outlook-as-markets-outside-france-power-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/28\/orange-raises-2026-profit-outlook-as-markets-outside-france-power-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange raises 2026 profit outlook as markets outside France power growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French telecoms group Orange lifted its 2026 core profit growth target to above 4.5% on Tuesday, citing strength in Africa, Poland and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The raised profit outlook, which compares to a previous goal of above 4%, rests on growth outside France. Third-quarter revenue rose 14.2% in Africa and the Middle East and 7.9% in Poland, against 0.5% at home. Orange is counting on that growth to fund cash returns and the planned SFR takeover while its home market barely grows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French telecoms group Orange lifted its 2026 core profit growth target to above 4.5% on Tuesday, citing strength in Africa, Poland and Spain. The raised profit outlook, which compares to a previous goal of above 4%, rests on growth outside France. Third-quarter revenue rose 14.2% in Africa and the Middle East and 7.9% in Poland, against 0.5% at home. Orange is counting on that growth to fund cash returns and the planned SFR takeover while its home market barely grows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045340,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045333\/revisions\/1045340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}