Orange
From Graces Guide
1991 Licences were issued to provide mobile telephone services in the UK using digital technology for personal communications networks - these were taken up by Mercury Personal Communications Ltd and Orange. Orange was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hutchison Telecom (UK) Ltd
1996 Owned by Hutchison Whampoa and British Aerospace[1]; public offering of shares in the parent company, Orange plc.
Acquired by German operator Mannesman which was then taken over by Vodafone which had to dispose of Orange
2000 Acquired from Vodafone by France Telecom[2]
2001 A fraction of the shares in the company were floated on the stock market.
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