Orange Business has announced the integration of Eutelsat’s OneWeb satellite services with its emergency telecommunications unit, SafetyCase.
This significant step guarantees sovereign, dependable, and resilient communications continuity for emergency and security services, local government agencies, critical operators, and vital businesses—even during power outages or terrestrial network failures.
About SafetyCase units
SafetyCase units are energy-autonomous, durable telecom devices designed and produced in France. They are intended to restore voice, data, and video on the ground during emergencies.
By cleverly combining existing networks, they instantly produce one or more Wi-Fi connectivity bubbles. There are two complementary versions of SafetyCase, each tailored to a different emergency situation:
“Mobile Unit”: plug and play, ready to use in a matter of seconds for urgent mobility requirements.
“Crisis Centre”: deployable by non-specialist teams in less than 30 minutes, giving crisis cells or command centres up to 20 hours of uninterrupted autonomy.
Utilisation of SafetyCase units in emergency situations
SafetyCase is quickly becoming a vital component of French national and European resilience. It was already utilised during the floods in Valencia, Spain, and Cyclone Chido in Mayotte in December 2024. Customers are currently proactively incorporating it into their continuity plans.
The solution advances with Eutelsat’s OneWeb, which benefits from the robustness and low latency of a European constellation of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites that enhance other technologies. This collaboration strengthens the solution’s sovereignty.
Nassima Auvray, Defence & Security Director, Orange Business: “With Eutelsat’s OneWeb, we reinforce the promise of SafetyCase: restore communications when everything stops. This European, sovereign advance gives firefighters, security forces, and local authorities a decisive capability: rapidly recreating a reliable network to coordinate, treat, alert, and decide. It’s a key building block of national resilience, powered by Orange’s network excellence and our new Defence & Security Division, at the service of safety and emergency professionals.”