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Free Orange broadband for businesses

Friday, 24 October 2008

By Garnet Roach garnet@consumerchoices.co.uk

Small businesses can now get “free broadband” from Orange when they sign up to its Solo mobile phone plan (24-10-08).

Orange Broadband (www.Orange.co.uk) already offers “free broadband” to home customers on a pay monthly plan, but has now extended the offer to include some business customers until the end of February next year.

Martin Lyne, Director of SME, Orange Business UK, said: “The improvements in the quality of our broadband network mean we can now offer faster broadband for free to our small business customers, with all the support they need to get up and running. It’s making broadband more affordable and accessible for small business customers.”

Anyone living within the Orange local loop unbundled (LLU) area and signing up to the provider’s Solo mobile phone plan for 24 months will get up to 8Mb broadband at no extra cost, free connection and a free wireless router. Customers also get free support and “unlimited” downloads (fair usage policy applies).

The range of Solo price plans is designed specifically for the self-employed and people running small business and come with inclusive anytime minutes, texts, data and an additional “unlimited benefit” such as unlimited texts or calls to UK landlines. Costs range from £30 up to £45 a month.

Michael Phillips, BroadbandChoices.co.uk product director, said: “This is a really great offer for anyone starting up their own business or just wanting to save a bit of cash on their broadband bills.

“And unlike the ‘free’ home broadband deal, which has a fairly low monthly download cap of 10GB, business customers get a far more generous ‘unlimited’ offer,” he noted.

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