Orange launches Bright Box wireless router, offering greatest wireless home broadband signal range to date

• New Orange Bright Box wireless router, its most powerful router to date, features Advanced wireless ‘N’ technology offering customers the best Wi-Fi range (250m)  to date
• The Bright Box wireless router includes intelligent wireless, allowing customers to move all of their connected devices to the channel with least signal interference
• With ‘Plug-in and play’ set-up, the Bright Box allows customers to get online within minutes of activation

Orange today introduced the Bright Box wireless router, its most powerful wireless home broadband router to date. Available immediately, all new Orange home broadband customers will receive the Bright Box wireless router, worth £95, as an inclusive part of their home broadband package, allowing them to enjoy a great wireless signal range of up to 250 metres throughout their home within minutes of set-up.

Exclusive to Orange home broadband customers, the Bright Box wireless router has 2 in-built antennas using advanced wireless ‘N’ technology to offer customers the fastest and most reliable internet connection within their home, as well as intelligent wireless to help avoid interference from other household electric devices that can potentially cause connection issues.

Designed with simplicity in mind, this exclusive piece of kit, which is small enough to be delivered through most letterboxes, offers a truly plug-in and play experience. Furthermore, customers get peace of mind that they are protected by WPA 2 encryption technology, as well as a selection of multiple-SSIDs (or wireless network names) with separate passwords for sharing the connection securely.

The Bright Box wireless router features four 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports, a USB connection that enables users to connect content straight to their home network.

Sylvain Thevenot, Director of Marketing & Propositions, Orange Broadband said: “We’re constantly looking to evolve our home broadband offering to ensure our customers enjoy the best possible experience across multiple devices in the home - including smart phones using Wi-Fi. With this in mind,  we’re pleased to be introducing the Bright Box, our most powerful wireless router to date – providing yet another reason why with Orange, you really do get the best value home broadband in the market.”

To find out more about the new Bright Box wireless router and Orange home broadband price plans, please visit www.orange.co.uk/broadband

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Technical specification:

• ANNEX A supported
• One RJ11 ADSL Port
• 4 x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports
• 1 USB 2.0 Host
• Support PPPoE, PPPoA, RFC1483 Bridge
• OAM (I.610) F4/F5 support
• Wireless IEEE802.11b/g/n
• Wireless encapsulation WEP/WPA/WPA2
• Wireless QoS, WMM (Wi-Fi Multi media)

About Orange UK

Orange is the key brand of the France Telecom Group, one of the world's leading telecommunications operators. With almost 131 million customers, the Orange brand now covers Internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the Group operates.

In the UK, Orange provides high quality GSM coverage to 99% of the UK population, and 3G coverage to more than 93%. Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trade marks of Orange Brand Services Limited.

On July 1 2010, the company became part of Everything Everywhere, one company that runs two of Britain's most famous brands - Orange UK and T-Mobile UK - with plans to transform the industry by giving customers instant access to everything, everywhere, offering them the best value, best choice and best network coverage in the country. Everything Everywhere Limited is the UK’s biggest communications company, with a combined customer base of almost 28 million people and more than 720 retail stores across the country. Everything Everywhere Limited is registered at Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9BW under the registered company number 02382161.

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