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Orange announce a new converged service, available in November 2007, which will be very similar to BT Fusion.

On June 20th Onecompare wrote an article - Mobile Phones plus Broadband vs VOIP, which looked into why networks were teaming up with broadband services, predicting a rise in converged mobile/VoIP services. Since then the acquisition of broadband firms by mobile phone networks has continued with Vodafone recently inking a deal to provide their own service.

Orange have now announced that in November they will be launching a new service that will combine landline and mobile services in one handset, very similar to BT Fusion.

The phone service will work over a Wi Fi connection allowing calls to be made over VoIP whilst the customer is at home.  Once outside the phone will work like a standard mobile phone.  This has the benefit of essentially having a landline phone that you can receive calls on when your not at home.

The service offers unlimited free calls to orange mobiles and landlines and once signed up you will receive one telephone number, one address book, one answerphone and be billed on a single bill from Orange.  Services will also be available in France, Spain, Poland, and the Netherlands.

Households will be able to have up to six handsets, though obviously if everyone were to take a handset out of the house they would all ring when someone called the single number, meaning that this solution isn’t yet a good replacement for a personal mobile phone.

The service will only be available on selected handsets when first launched, the Motorola A910, Nokia 6136 and Samsung P200, with other handsets coming available in 2007.