Orange breaks into fixed-line telephone service

It seems like US carriers aren't the only ones teaming up to push communications bundles to consumers, the UK's Orange is now jumping into the fixed-line telephone market to offer service bundles its to business customers. France Telecom, who owns both Orange and Internet provider Wanadoo, has merged the two companies, and Orange will offer both landline and wireless service on one bill, and at discounted rates for intercompany calling. Sounds great to us, but we would've hoped by now that wireless service could be reliable enough to start replacing fixed services. That's clearly not the case yet, but this seems more of a step back for a company like Orange, at least tech-wise