The Orange Podcast

Orange's first trees, planted in huge underground cells

The Orange Podcast

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Send us Fan Mail Orange is famous for its has beautiful street trees, but how do you prevent a tree damaging surrounding infrastructure lie footpath and roads? In a first for Orange, new underground cells are being installed to let trees grow to be healthy without tree roots impacting the neighbourhood. Also today's Orange's tourism marketing arm, Orange360, makes use of data harvested from mobile phones to better target its messages tp attract visitors. We find out how the company that provi...

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