Earthquake: Orange makes free calls and SMS to Turkey and Syria

After the catastrophe that affected Turkey and northern Syria, Orange promotes solidarity action by making free calls and SMS from France for ten days.

Orange has decided to make free calls to mobiles and landlines as well as SMS from France to Turkey and Syria for all its customers over the next few days, until February 21, 2023 specifically. France and Spain are the first affected and Belgium will follow them in the next few hours. Remember that the same type of measure was initiated by mobile operators at the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine.

The rescue is organized thanks to the network.

It must be said that after the earthquake of magnitude up to 7.8 on the Richter scale in southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria, communication networks are running at full speed. Families are obviously looking for news of their loved ones in the area. Emergency services in particular also need the network to act more precisely and efficiently in emergency areas. Rescuers from neighboring countries such as Moldova or Romania are currently on Turkish territory and benefit from completely free roaming.

In its press release, the Orange group shows its support for the populations and territories affected by this disaster of an unprecedented scale, and indicates that it will renew its actions according to the evolution of the situation.

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