Orange teams with Asus and HP for mobile broadband

Orange is working with HP and Asus to release a range of ‘connected’ laptop packages for the business and consumer markets.

The bundled packages will all offer laptops with mobile broadband for a fixed monthly rate and is part of a strategy in which Orange pledged to ‘evolve’ the communications market.

Small and medium business customers will be offered three new packages which range from £35 to £45 per month and all have a laptop and mobile connection.

The £35 per month package will offer a HP 6730s Laptop with an Intel Celeron processor while £40 package will get the same laptop with an upgraded Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The £45 bundle has a HP 6730b laptop, also with Intel 2 Core duo processing power.

The two cheapest packages will offer an Option ICON 225 dongle while the £45 package offers an Orange SIM modem embedded into the laptop. All will carry Microsoft Windows Vista.

All will include a ‘Business Everywhere Unlimited’ bundle which will have an ‘unlimited’ data allowance (although subjected to a 5GB fair use policy) and 500 free Wi-Fi minutes which can be used in various hotspots. However, users will need to sign a 24-month contract.

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