Orange phone number blocks in France
Orange holds 185.5 million phone numbers in France, Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Mayotte and St. Pierre & Miquelon, 44.1% of the numbers ARCEP’s table of 2026-09-25 lists as allocated there, under 2 holder names; the largest, Orange, holds 185.5 million. The carrier a phone lookup names for a number is the holder of the block the number sits in, as the regulator lists it: the original allocation, not the caller, the app or the network that serves a ported number today.
| Brand | Orange |
|---|---|
| Numbers held | 185,513,200 (44.1% of the allocated numbers in ARCEP’s table) |
| Holder names | 2 |
| Ranges held | 1,609 |
| Table | ARCEP numbering resources, retrieved on 2026-09-25 |
| Terms | Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (Etalab), ARCEP |
| Grouped by | Spaw’s carrier brand map of 2026-09-24 |
| Regions | France, Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Mayotte, St. Pierre & Miquelon |
The legal entities ARCEP lists
Every holder in ARCEP’s table that the brand map groups under Orange, by the numbers allocated to it. Names are printed as the regulator writes them. Holdings are counted in numbers, not table rows, because rows differ in size: a range covers every nine-digit number its digits start, 10,000 for a five-digit range and 1,000 for a six-digit one.
| holder | operator code | regions | ranges | numbers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orange | FRTE | FR, GF, GP, MQ, PM, RE, YT | 1,598 | 185,493,200 |
| Orange business services | ORBS | FR | 11 | 20,000 |
How a lookup reads these numbers
The numbering plan types these ranges itself, so a number’s line type comes from the range, not from the holder. Orange’s numbers by the plan’s type:
| geographic (fixed line) | 123,511,000 | 66.6% |
|---|---|---|
| mobile | 45,010,000 | 24.3% |
| VoIP | 13,333,000 | 7.2% |
| shared cost | 1,873,000 | 1.0% |
| freephone | 1,160,000 | 0.6% |
| premium rate | 457,000 | 0.2% |
| not typed by the plan | 118,200 | 0.1% |
| non-geographic (UAN) | 41,000 | 0.0% |
| fixed line or mobile | 10,000 | 0.0% |
The ranges with most of its numbers
By region, each share of the numbers ARCEP lists as allocated there:
| France | 181,743,000 | 44.1% |
|---|---|---|
| Réunion | 1,101,100 | 40.0% |
| Guadeloupe | 1,015,000 | 47.6% |
| Martinique | 852,000 | 48.8% |
| French Guiana | 492,000 | 41.5% |
| Mayotte | 300,100 | 36.7% |
| St. Pierre & Miquelon | 10,000 | 13.9% |
Orange’s entities hold numbers under 34 ranges of the plan, each a geographic zone (01 to 05) or a mobile or non-geographic range (06, 07, 08x, 09). The share is its part of the numbers ARCEP lists as allocated under each range.
| code | place | numbers | share of the code |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06FR | — | 36,210,000 | 40.1% |
| 04FR | South-east France | 29,782,000 | 54.7% |
| 01FR | Île-de-France | 26,162,000 | 58.7% |
| 03FR | North-east France | 25,102,000 | 51.7% |
| 02FR | North-west France | 23,141,000 | 51.1% |
| 05FR | South-west France | 17,621,000 | 51.8% |
| 09FR | — | 13,122,000 | 34.3% |
| 07FR | — | 7,070,000 | 15.7% |
| 080FR | — | 1,201,000 | 43.5% |
| 081FR | — | 1,050,000 | 52.9% |
| 082FR | — | 833,000 | 30.2% |
| 0262RE | — | 560,000 | 58.7% |
Assignments by year
The ranges the table still lists under Orange’s entities, by the year ARCEP dates their assignment. A block returned since is no longer in the table, so earlier years read low; 100.0% of the rows carry a date. ARCEP records one attribution date per range, and many long-held ranges share a handful of dates, so a year here is the date the table records, not always when the numbers were first allocated.
| year | ranges | numbers |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 12 | 102,000 |
| 2025 | 10 | 10,000 |
| 2024 | 9 | 43,200 |
| 2023 | 86 | 1 million |
| 2021 | 9 | 90,000 |
| 2019 | 2 | 20,000 |
| 2018 | 358 | 4.3 million |
| 2017 | 1,123 | 179.9 million |
What this page cannot say
- A regulator’s table records the original allocation of each block, never who serves a number today: a number ported away from Orange keeps its block, and a lookup still names the block’s holder for it.
- The carrier a lookup names is not the caller, the app or the subscriber. Caller ID can be spoofed, so the holder of a calling number’s block may not have carried the call at all.
- Spaw does no reverse lookup and names no subscriber: nothing here says who owns or uses any number.
- Shares are shares of the regulator’s own table, not of subscribers, lines in service or traffic.
- The grouping under Orange is Spaw’s carrier brand map of 2026-09-24: legal entities, subsidiaries and former names under the brand the network trades as today. Networks change hands, and the map is reviewed at least yearly.
Orange and the other brand names on this page are trademarks of their owners, used only to name the networks the regulators’ tables list. Spaw is not affiliated with any of them.
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ARCEP numbering resources retrieved on 2026-09-25 · carrier brand map 2026-09-24 · page changed 2026-09-25
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