Orange Users Get Unlimited Bebo Access For £3 Each Month

Mobile service provider Orange and social network Bebo announced that Orange customers can now get unlimited Bebo access for £3 (6.1 US dollars) per month. This plan, called “Bebo Extra”, will enable users to comment on their friends’ profiles, send Bebo Mails and receive profile notifications via SMS, all at a single price.

Bebo is a hugely popular social network in the UK, and UK users love using SMS. Furthermore, Bebo already has a deal with Orange for the Bebo Mobile service, and they also have a Twitter-like service. This new plan makes it even easier for Orange users to reach their favorite social network through their mobile phones.

Or, as Katrien Barrat, Director of Multimedia and Convergence at Orange UK has put it, “The great thing with Bebo mobile is that we have found one more way to change our customers’ mobiles from a one-to-one communication device to a complete social networking tool, enabling people to engage in conversations, discover new interests and express themselves in a completely new way.”

As far as mobile access goes, Bebo is really trying hard, and since all these cool SMS gizmos are killer features for the European SMS-loving audience, we expect it to continue gaining ground over their competition, at least in the UK.

Comment: I like more the Twitter-function, because it’s more ‘useful’ in case of ‘ROI’ - what you are intending to do and communicating with your text/sms. But it’s the required step to get further with the mobile/CE industry.