Orange launches its towerco, stressing how independent it is

French operator group Orange has placed its passive infrastructure assets into a new company called Totem so it can flog access to other telcos.
Totem is capitalized by Orange but, since it doesn’t seem to be an acronym, we don’t see the point, especially since it requires slightly more typing effort. Orange has been banging on about it since the start of the year but hasn’t reached the number of sites it had previously hoped to. Totem France will manage 18,500 macro-sites with