Orange Fax & Data
In June 1995, Orange officially announced their Data Service. It operates over a Nokia Orange phone through the same PCMCIA card used by GSM phones, though this is available from Orange at a special price of 269ukp inc. VAT including some bundled software and a year's use of a data help line.STOP PRESS: The Ericsson er500 and Motorola mr30 are now also fully supported for use on the Orange Data Service - ask for full details.
Service is 9600bps incoming and outgoing fax and data. Outgoing data/fax is available automatically. Incoming requires that you request a couple of extra phone numbers - one for fax, one for data at any standard speed up to 9600bps.
Best news: the extra numbers are free. There is no extra monthly charge. And data calls are charged at exactly the same rate as you line 1 voice calls, including the 'free' inclusive minutes and per-second billing. This could make it interesting to those who can only access Internet service providers through long distance BT calls.
Apart from feeling slightly slow compared to a modem over a BT line on things like WWW access, the system works extremely well for both data and fax use.
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Rob Halliday: rob@halliday.demon.co.uk
Freelance writer, lighting designer, production electrician
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