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Orange Livebox


Orange Livebox is an ADSL wireless router available to customers of Orange's Broadband services in the United Kingdom, Kenya, Guinea, France, Tunisia, Spain, Jordan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Orange's Belgian subsidiary Mobistar, Orange's Mauritian partner MyT, Lightspeed Communications in Bahrain and Orange Botswana. Depending on the model, it is manufactured by Inventel, Sagem or ZTE.

Although hardware for these services is built into every Livebox, some (Bluetooth and Live Printer) are only activated by firmware updates. Currently, the latest firmware is v5.10.7-uk for the UK.

With hacking, and possibly in future firmware releases, it may be possible to use other hardware, such as hard drives, with the USB host port. Due to deliberate restrictions embedded in the firmware, Liveboxes in the UK are locked to Orange. As a result, they will not work with other ISP's. However, hackers have found ways to circumvent this restriction by overwriting the firmware.

Second Line is Orange's VoIP service through the Livebox. In the United Kingdom, France and Spain it is free to call national, international landlines as well as other Livebox numbers and Orange mobile numbers. Additionally, the UK Livebox allows free calls to Orange mobile phones and 30 countries (providing the call is made from the Orange Second Line to a landline in that country. A list of these countries can be found here.


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