Orange offers quadruple play fixed, mobile, broadband and TV service
Orange have gone mad and announced a new quadruple play package, offering customers a mobile connection, fixed line connection, broadband and IPTV service in one package with one bill. Starting in France to begin with, the company is rebranding its Wannadoo broadband package, and offering 8Mbps broadband connection, high-def IPTV, VoIP, and an unlimited mobile TV service.
The service also allows calls to be made over the mobile phone, or switched over to a customer's broadband connection via WiFi when at home.
For the UK market, Orange's new service will offer free broadband (as long as you take out an 18 month mobile phone contract), and again the ability for calls to switch between a mobile connection and fixed broadband connection via WiFi.
The UK service isn't quite as comprehensive as the French service, but France Telecom (Orange's parent company) plans to introduce the same quadruple services into the UK soon.
Expect this to be the start of a trend, with all the operators rolling out their own n-tuple play services.
[Source: LightReading]
