Orange are making special cheap deals for students with mobile broadband provider Orange!
Students signing up for a new bank account at Barclays will be able to kit themselves up with broadband in good time for the start of the next academic year. The bank has announced, from today, eligible customers will be able to receive a 25 per cent discount on Orange mobile broadband.
As part of the deal new student customers will receive a free mobile broadband dongle as well as acccess to telephone banking and a contactless Visa debit card.
Speaking on the incentive, Barclay’s head of current accounts, Andrew Harris, said: “We recognise the financial challenges students have and that’s why we have looked to provide them with a relevant package to support them through student life.”
Great news for small business looking at getting into using mobile broadband.
Orange mobile broadband has cut its business rates by up to 50% until 31 July in a bid to stoke up small businesses’ interest in the technology.
Existing Orange business customers can now subscribe to Business Everywhere Unlimited mobile broadband for £7.50 per month.
Other small businesses can sign up for £10 per month.
Both packages are subject to a fair use policy.
Business take up of mobile broadband has been slower than mobile operators expected, and Orange’s offer is designed to encourage small businesses to try out the technology.
ORANGE UK is to support mobile broadband for laptops from HP Compaq and Toshiba with connectivity supported by a new mobile broadband dongle from Huawei.
Only available on long contracts, the two new laptop offers are designed, says Orange, to allow consumers to choose a device that suit their needs, whilst still getting the great benefits of internet access - without the need to pay the full price upfront - which we thing is excellent!
For £30 per month is the 1 Kg HP Compaq Mini 700 10.1-inch laptop which is based on and Intel Atom processor and comes equipped with a 60 Gbyte drive, 802.11 B/G WLAN connectivity, a 92% full size keyboard and integrated webcam.
It is hoped that these deals will be available on a prepay scheme soon.
Mobile boroadband operator Orange UK is taking on O2 — Apple’s partner for the iPhone in the UK — launching a range of mobile broadband packages that bundle laptops rather than mobiles.
Oranges’s connected Laptop packages include a cheaper-than-an-iPhone £25-per-month consumer tariff offering the popular Asus Eee PC 900 mini laptop. Users get a free orange dongle with their Eee and Orange’s ‘Internet Everywhere’ package, with a data allowance of 3GB, and 100 texts from the laptop.
