Network to follow O2 in doing away with unlimited tariffs.
Orange is poised to scrap unlimited data plans from this summer, Mobile understands.
The network is one of a number of operators expected to follow suit after O2 announced today that it would drop unlimited data for new and upgrading customers when the iPhone 4 launches on 24 June.
Industry commentators had predicted that operators would no longer be able to sustain �unlimited� models as the strain on the networks increased.
CCS Insight analyst Ben Wood told Mobile following O2�s announcement today: �No operator can afford to have 3% of their smartphone users consuming 36% of data resources.
�It's going to be interesting to see how O2's competitors react to this. Now 3 has the iPhone maybe it will choose to compete with an unlimited offer for its users.�
Orange did not comment.
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