Hi everyone and welcome to In Good Company.

I'm Nicola Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian Southern World Fund.

And today we have a very special guest, Christel Edaman, the chief executive of Orange Group.

Now, Orange is one of the largest telco companies in Europe and in the world, actually,

with 290 million customers.

And Crystal is an engineer by training, transformative leader, and an evident mountain tracker.

So we're going to learn about a lot of things, Kristel.

Big welcome.

Thank you.

It's a pleasure to be here.

Thank you. Why is the telecom sector interesting?

Actually, what's interesting is that we are in everybody's life in good moments, and we don't realize it, but we rely on connectivity all the day.

I mean, as companies are humans.

We're always connected.

We look at our phones.

And so the technology is surrounding us, and that's what we do.

So we are here in the life of the citizens, the people, our families.

And then, of course, where it's actually more impacting is, of course, we are here in times, in good times, the Olympics in Paris, for instance, with a great experience where everyone

was connected and everyone could see. But it's also the case when things go wrong and that's, I mean,

you've seen a number of blackouts in countries or when there's extreme events.

And that's when actually connectivity is more important than ever because you want to reach out

to your family.

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