$ASTS | Christel Heydemann, CEO of Orange, during the Q3 2026 earnings call: “Last week we signed, together with Deutsche Telekom Telefónica and Vodafone, a letter of intent to prepare a potential joint bid for the future allocation of spectrum for mobile satellite services in Europe. The initiative supports the European Commission's ambition to strengthen Europe's sovereignty, security, and resilience in critical connectivity infrastructure. Overall, we see satellite connectivity as a core complement to our networks to provide coverage completeness and resilience. Also in terms of innovative growth, Orange Business obtained a new Secnum Cloud qualification, extending its portfolio of trusted cloud offers. Orange Business was also selected to provide the European Union's backbone network for trusted data exchange. Our Maxit in Middle East Africa keeps gaining traction, with 38.5 million active users.” “On the satellite and MSS spectrum, as we commented, we signed a letter of intent with Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, and Vodafone to potentially bid for one part of the MSS spectrum that is being auctioned end of 2027 for implementation in 2029. The bid for this spectrum would then be open and wholesale to all telecom operators in Europe. We see MSS spectrum really as a complement to our terrestrial network. As we've always said, for us, the key element will be the customer experience and the handover from terrestrial to satellite and back and forth between our networks, which really requires mastering both side of the experience, working also on the end sets. This is really the way we see it. When it comes to the bid and the consortium to bid for spectrum, it's still early stage, so we can't provide you more details. Again, the process is second half of 2027, so we will provide more detail as soon as we have.” “On satellite, you are right to mention we launched this first offer a year ago, actually, with Skylo in France. As you know, we are testing several solutions. We are also testing Starlink in Spain. We have a pilot under preparation in Romania with AST. When it comes to the Skylo offer, we've been able to test the willingness for customers and the appetite in the market for this type of offer. That being said, the Skylo experience, given its geostationary solution and it was only available on a few devices, was as expected. It was for us a test in the market to test the appetite, to position ourselves on this segment. However, we plan to continue to add especially more device options, given it was limited to only customers buying this new Pixel devices which was a very small part of the market.”