Orange and Bebo team up for mobile/online networking

The ever-greying area between mobile phones and the internet is set to get a little bit greyer with Orange announcing plans to offer their mobile customers exclusive access to the online social networking site Bebo.

Bebo, which has over 31 million members and features exclusive music, film and TV content, is one of the most widely used social networking websites on the web. Orange has over 15 million customers in the UK, and will be undoubtedly keen to stress the possibilities of taking pictures and films with friends on an Orange Unique phone, and transferring the data straight onto Bebo’s webspace via a wireless Livebox connection to a home computer.

Recently it has also been announced that mobile phone network Vodafone have announced a similar deal with Myspace, and Sky recently unveiled a beta version SkyCast, an online video sharing venture in partnership with Google.

So far the Bebo/Orange deal is exclusive, but many predict that other popular networking sites may provide members with mobile access from a multitude of providers – so a possible O2/Facebook/Be Broadband amalgam could be heading your way this summer.

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