LONDON, August 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Orange Launches Mobile Fleet, a Set of Tools to Help Manage Fleet Worker Productivity

Orange Business Services today launched Mobile Fleet, a set of tools designed to increase the productivity and availability of fleets of vehicles and mobile workers within small and medium size businesses. The solution includes customisable, award winning Orange Mobile Forms(1), 4MB of data allowance and access to real time traffic updates from the RAC and Trafficmaster(2).

Recognising that road based businesses have different needs to those based at a desk, Orange Mobile Fleet removes the need for drivers to constantly return to base. It enables detailed job specifications to be delivered to field workers and, in return, for them to send job updates and invoices back to their headquarters, saving time and money in the process.

The inclusive 4MB data ensures the sending and receiving of approximately 1,000 standard Mobile Forms is included within the price. While real time traffic updates, received by calling 240 from an Orange phone, give mobile workers a convenient way to avoid traffic congestion between jobs and get their work done faster.

"We're giving our fleet based small and medium size customers the tools to keep their workforce more productive for longer," commented Martin Lyne, Director of Small Business, Orange Business Services. "Less time spent on admin means more time spent with customers. Coupling Mobile Forms with the 240 traffic alert and free 4MB data allowance means the net effect of Mobile Fleet is reduced travel, increased productivity and improved customer satisfaction. A positive result all round."

Mobile Forms can be easily customised using a drag and drop menu and requires no specialist IT support. Data can be sent and received in real time and can be exported in various formats to standard business applications such as Adobe PDF or Microsoft Excel.

"For courier companies, service engineers or companies with fleets of tradesmen Mobile Fleet is an easy to use, easy to deploy solution which gives instant and obvious time saving benefits," added Martin Lyne.

Mobile Forms is available on 18 and 24 month contracts from as little as GBP17 per month or as a one off annual charge with prices starting from GBP300 dependent on the number of subscribers.

The new price plan is available to all business customers on Orange Solo, Orange Venture or Orange Momentum service plans. Customers that sign up to the plan can use existing devices if appropriate, or upgrade to a HTC TyTN II, HTC Touch, HTC Touch Dual, HTC Sedna, or Samsung i780.

More information about the individual components can be found below:

Mobile Forms:

Orange Mobile Forms is designed to provide an Internet based service allowing you to:

- Design business forms for PDAs specific to your requirements

- Deploy different forms to PDA users as required, up to 100 bespoke forms can be set up

- Send data to be displayed in forms from a Web interface

- Receive and read data sent from PDA forms on the Web interface

- Mobile Forms does not require any IT integration to customers IT systems and customer's can be up and running within 48 hours of registration

240 traffic news services:

- Provided by the RAC and Trafficmaster - Updates every three minutes

- A personalised location aware traffic information service that delivers information specific to your location

- Special Bulletins - When an incident has occurred or road-works are taking place a special bulletin is offered for further information

Data allowance:

- Each month 4MB of data allowance, with any remaining rolled over for one month only

About Orange

Orange is a key brand of the France Telecom Group, providing mobile, broadband, fixed, business and entertainment services across Europe. It is one of the world's leading telecommunications operators with more than 170 million customers on five continents.

In June, 2006, Orange became the single brand for mobile, broadband and multi-play offers. In addition, Orange Business Services became the new banner for business communications solutions. Orange Business Services is present in 166 countries with network reach in 220.

In the UK, Orange provides high quality GSM coverage to 99% of the UK population. At the end of March 2008, Orange had over 16.9 million customers in the UK - 15.8 million active mobile customers and over 1.1 million broadband customers.

Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trade marks of Orange Personal Communications Services Limited.

Further information about Orange can be found on the Orange website at http://www.orange.co.uk or the France Telecom group international website at http://www.orange.com and http://www.francetelecom.com

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(1) Orange Mobile Forms was winner of Best Mobility Innovation or Service category at the 2008 Convergence World Awards

(2) 10 minutes of calls to the 240 Traffic News Service

For further information, call Victoria Aitken on +44(0)20-3047-2331 or email at victoria.aitken@edelman.com