These phone companies know which buttons to push in order to flog you a mobile phone service. Orange is no exception. It reckons it can get a few business types to sign up to one of its tariffs if it gives punters a free iPod Touch. 

Basically, Orange Business Services is offering a free 8GB Apple iPod touch to customers who sign up to 18 month business tariffs. Customers who sign up in selected Orange shops to Orange Solo, Orange Venture or Orange Momentum business tariffs in February can get their mitts on a reassuringly expensive piece of Apple kit. Of course, you only get the mp3 player if you sign up for a £5 a month tariff, so cheapskates need not apply.

“The work/life blur often means doing work in your free time. We want to redress the balance and encourage our customers to take time out of their working day for themselves and the iPod touch is a great me-time device with which to do that,” said Martin Lyne, Director of Small Business, Orange UK.

This is the first time Orange has exclusively offered business customers a free give-away and follows the success of similar Orange offers to consumers.

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