At Idate's soiree in Simpson's in the Strand last night.

Sanjiv Ahuja said Orange expects to get 5-10% of all its revenues from user-generated content within 3 years.
"We will generate our own content from our own users," he insists. "We have to."

One questioner from the floor asked why users would want Orange to look after their content.
Because there are 65k blogs in France and 1.2 million visitors to them and 140 million views online, and:
"Users are looking at these on mobile as much as in fixed," says Ahuja.

Another questioner asked Ahuja if he thought there would be more consolidation of networks and operators.
Ahuja immediately asked her who she was, and it turned out she was from Ofcom.
"He doesn't know me," she said later. "But he seemed to know instinctively he was dealing with a regulator!"
Ahuja took the opportunity to register his dismay at the European Commission's intervention on roaming charges.
"We signed national licence agreements," he said. "When did the Commission start regulating national markets?" Then he remembered that Orange spent 4 billion on 3G spectrum, and looked quite pained.