Orange Launches 'Unique' in UK

Orange will unveil its "converged" fixed and mobile phone service today, allowing customers to use a mobile handset to make unlimited calls through their broadband home internet connection.

Unique, to be launched in Britain later this year, will be available to customers who take an Orange mobile and broadband contract. The cost of the service is expected to be based on the company's range of "animal" tariffs. The phone, which connects to Orange's mobile network, as well as Livebox - which is used by many of its one million UK broadband customers to access the web - will be free.