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Orange To Offer Wi-Fi VoIP Mobiles |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Tuesday, 26 September 2006 |
The UK division of France
Telecom's Orange is leading the way launching a mobile handset that can
use your wireless home network to make calls when your their and then
switches to the standard Orange network when you are away from home.
The service will offer a single phone number single bill solution for mobile and VoIP network services.
Although
the service is to be offered in the UK, France, the Netherlands, Spain
and Poland, the UK will be the first to get the service.
Connecting to the Orange Livebox network via the Internet at home, the
service is able to seamlessly hand over to the mobile network while you
are on a call says the company.
The VoIP service bundle includes unlimited calls to landlines and
Orange mobiles, although the company says that each market will
tailor its proposition to meet the specific needs of customers in that
territory.
Furthermore, a call initiated at home remains covered by the
unlimited offer even when you leave your home. A symbol on the phone's
screen constantly informs customers of the network they are connected
to, Orange said in a statement about the new deal.
UK customers can pre-register
for the service now by visiting www.orange.co.uk/uniquephone, but the
first units won't arrive until November. Initially, there are three handsets
to choose from - the Motorola A910, Nokia 6136 and the Samsung P200 -
with more due to launch in 2007.
Didier Lombard, President and
Director General of the France Télécom group, said: "The commercial
launch of Unique phone announces the advent of a new generation of
telephones.
"Today, people use the phone in a different way. With
broadband, the use of Internet, mobiles, Voice over IP, and high
definition technologies for sound and vision, our communication habits
are changing very rapidly.
"This is the first real convergence
offer, dreamed up, developed and commercialised by the group under the
Orange brand, and the result of the work of our Technocentre."
Each home can have up to six Unique phones registered for the service but only three VoIP users at a time.
According to other reports the two phone plans that are being offered are the
Canary 50 and the Panther 65, which cost £50 and £65 respectively, and
yield 600 and 1200 minutes a month respectively. Broadband connection
is free.
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