Orange extends 3G services in Europe

BANGALORE, INDIA: Orange, a key brand of the France Telecom Group, providing mobile, broadband, fixed, business and entertainment services across Europe, today announced that it would be extending its 3G services across Scotland, Northern Ireland and North-East England.

According to the company, the improved 3G-network infrastructure will bring faster and even more reliable voice and data services to different locations.

The enhanced network in Scotland, Northern Ireland and North-east England will enable Orange customers, living, working or traveling across these areas, to experience faster 3G data service, said a press release.

The network would include reliable combined voice and data service and 99 per cent call set-up success rate. A faster variant of 3G/HSDPA will be rolled out and will support mobile broadband in the future.

The access of the network includes, apart from cities and towns, major roads, rail routes, business parks, conference centers, hotels and airports.

"A robust and reliable network is at the heart of everything we do at Orange and we are dedicated to ensuring our customers in each and every region of the UK feel the benefit of this," said Peter Marsden, vice president IT & Networks.

"We are investing heavily to improve our network and this investment is one step closer to our goal of becoming the best UK network for coverage and reliability by 2009," he added.