Orange to coordinate French quantum comms effort

France has assembled a consortium of tech firms, researchers – and one telco – to kick off its deployment of quantum networks.
The programme, called FranceQCI (Quantum Communication Infrastructure) falls under the umbrella of the European Union’s EuroQCI, which is co-funding individual member states’ projects and generally managing the whole thing. The aim is to ensure that critical communications between strategically important sites across the continent – like gov