Built-in mobile broadband

From Yenra

On February 15, 2009, Orange partnered with Hewlett Packard to co-distribute and market a range of consumer notebooks and HP Minis with mobile and/or fixed broadband access. The three-year pan-European agreement will underpin the delivery of connected offers in the UK, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal, to be followed by a rollout across the Orange footprint.

The HP line of products will join Orange's mobile broadband portfolio of notebooks and netbooks, giving customers seamless, simple and affordable access to services such as mobile Internet, TV and other multimedia services.

One of these offers is the Compaq Mini 700 which, in the UK, allows customers to buy a ready-to-use Internet connected notebook for a monthly fee. The mobile broadband service comes on a dongle with a 3GB data allowance.