Orange expands business tariffs

New packages from Orange could appeal to data hungry business users

Mobile operator Orange has expanded its mobile broadband tariffs offering business users who sign up to a 24 month contract, ‘unlimited’ 3G access for £17 per month. The Business Everywhere package ‘unlimited’ offer, in this case means a maximum download limit of 3GB per month.

Orange is also offering a Business Everywhere Daily option allowing occasional mobile workers the option to try the service, for £7 a day, with no minimum contract requirements. Users of the Daily service are limited to 1GB a day.

Users get an Option Icon 225 USB memory stick – a high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) device – and 250 minutes of UK Wi-Fi access per month. Orange's Wi-Fi partners are BT Openzone, The Cloud and WeRoam,

IT Week labs has trialled HSDPA connections and seen data transfer speeds around 690Kbit/s on the download link. Users not being able to connect to an HSDPA service in their area could connect to Orange’s Edge service which gives download rates up to 200Kbit/s, around three times faster than GPRS.