Orange Care – offering customers three levels of service – gives peace of mind
and protection to mobile users from the time they purchase a phone to when they
retire it
Orange today is launching Orange Care, a new end-to-end portfolio of care services.
These services will provide customers across Europe with protection and peace
of mind, not just for their device but also for the increasingly valuable amount
of information, content and data that mobile users now put on their phones. The
three-tiered care package broadly covers transfer of content in Orange shops,
insurance with data backup/synchronisation services and recycling for their phones.
Designed to support customers throughout their lifetime with Orange, it is the
first truly end-to-end care solution by an operator in Europe in the telecoms
sector today and underpins a new approach from Orange to drive the adoption of
non-voice services.
The Orange Care portfolio offers customers three levels of service which will
initially be focused on mobile customers but will be extended to include an offer
for laptops in the future. These include services such as:
Transfer of contacts and content at point of sale: when customers buy a new phone
at an Orange shop, Orange will also propose to transfer their content from their
old phone. Customers can choose to have their contacts automatically backed up
onto the Orange network over the air at regular intervals from then on
Insurance and Backup: this includes an extended warranty service as well as regular
backup of contacts and content (photos, music etc) either through Orange retail
shops and/or over the air
Recycle: Orange will encourage customers to recycle their old phones when they
decide to retire their device.
Customers will pay for the service they require either through a one-off fee
or by monthly subsciption. Non-Orange customers can also benefit from Orange Care;
services like transfer of content will be available to them through a one-off
payment and these customers can take part in the Orange Recycle service without
needing to become an Orange customer.
Olaf Swantee, SEVP of Orange’s global mobile business, commented: “Currently,
operators may offer customers insurance locally that covers a device but at Orange,
we will not only offer insurance but also transfer and backup for all their contacts
and content as well as a sustainable programme for recycling their old phones.”
Olaf added, “The digital age we live in requires us to reinvent how care is provided
to all mobile users, to give them peace of mind and protection for what’s important
to them. We have learnt that customers place a different value on their phone,
its contents and their ability to stay in touch. This tiered package allows customers
to only pay for the level of service they want, giving them more value for money
and better control over what’s most valuable to them.”
Insurance services will be available from Orange in France, UK, Poland and Switzerland.
Spain, Belgium, Romania and Slovakia will be launching their insurance services
in the next two months. Remaining Orange Care solutions such as Backup and Recycling
programmes services will be launched across the Orange footprint from Q2 09 onwards.