All Posts Tagged With: "Orange"
Three of the big boys on the block have just kicked off their tax breaks for the UK mobile telephone market place, some for handsets others for tariffs and all for the greater good.
First up, Orange put into play their cuts starting from today and way ahead of the new tax initiative being launched next [...]
Now, if you’re in the middle of getting nailed by Orange for your data usage, do talk to Orange.
A MIR reader had the following issue. He thought he was on the £1.50 per day, unlimited data usage tariff.
But, er, no.
Call it a billing issue. A feature. Or whatever you like. He was actually [...]
News has come to use from the website Mobile Today that Orange’s exclusive HTC Touch HD has hit an issue over customer demand for the handset.
Only a week has passed since the mobile phone arrived in the Orange stores, but already they’ve hit a ceiling over supply and demand.
The site [...]
Not exactly a mobile story, but falling more into that camp that not – Orange gets shiny new ASUS EeePC with an embedded 3G SIM.
Joining many many other fine carriers, Orange has now announced another computer with internet access, provided by them.
The netbook comes along at the princely sum of £25 per month, with a [...]
The wonderful world of flip phones gets a brother from another mother; this time around Orange gets an exclusive with the LG KF 300.
Only last week the new BlackBerry flip/clamshell phone was announced on O2 and not to be outdone Orange has shown off the new edition to their range.
Pitching up looking awfully similar to [...]
Another network exclusivity was announced today the HTC Touch is going to Orange according to this article over at Mobile News.
The Touch HD comes with a 3.8 inch, high resolution, widescreen WVGA touchscreen and a 5 megapixel auto focus camera. The device also comes with HTC’s TouchFLO 3D user interface and is fitted with a [...]
According to Mobile Today, Phones 4u have stepped up the game in the bid to target students and are offering deals such as offering £100 of free music on any price plan.
Which is fantastic except there are not doing a very good job advertising it to us. In fact this year all the networks and [...]
If you’re an Orange Austria user, you’ll shortly be noticing that the Orange portal will start to adapt to things you like.
That’s because they’ve deployed ChangingWorld’s ClixSmart Intelligent Portal Platform. As well as offering a quicker time to market for publishing mobile internet services, the thing that interests me about this is the fact [...]
You can now get yourself a 35-quid-a-month free laptop from Orange.
Although, as we saw earlier, because of their ridiculous .co.uk website design, you’ll need to arse about clicking on their website and be very, very lucky to hit the relevant pages first-time.
The order pages are here, if you can’t be bothered hunting.
Here, then, is what [...]
I found this ad on the Orange.co.uk site:
It made me smile a little.
The Bold certainly gives the iPhone a run for it’s money in my book, but the others listed? No. Not even near.
It seems that Orange not being content with its deal with Lyca Mobile, has just signed another ethnic MVNO to its collection GlobalCell.
GlobalCell will be aiming their SIM only services to migrants from countries such as Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania and Russia, and will also offer customer service in those languages as well as English. [...]
It certainly looks like Orange have begun extending their Orange Response customer services assistance to the internet with comments posted like these:
Hi there,
I work for Orange and have checked this for you, and you should not be paying VAT on your final figure.
If you want to drop me an email with your contact details [...]
Does everyone remember Charlie Waldren’s post from yesterday? Well it seems Orange was listening.
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So, I wrote an article yesterday about the problems I had been having with my phone and with Orange.
I popped a copy off in the post to their complaints department, and after a crafty bit of Googling also managed to find an [...]
This had to happen, didn’t it? If you thought Orange paid Polish actors to make fake queues outside their shops just so that it would seem that they were having a good sale, then you are wrong my friend. Or at least that’s what Orange wants us to believe!
After the furor that was caused caused [...]
Check this issue out from Steve Rowlands (of S60blogger) about Orange (yeah, them again):
Steve writes:
Sick and tired of the lack of customer service from Orange, I decided to cancel my contract with 10 months remaining.
Upon making the phone call to the customer (dis)service disconnections department, I found myself greeted by a rather rude and abrupt [...]
Here’s a tale of woe from Miss Charlie Waldren a semi regular reader here at Mobile Industry Review. Alas, Orange don’t have anything like Vodafone’s Forum Intervention Team so she is, I suspect, destined to roam the land without a response or a resolution.
Have a read:
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Orange is [...]
I am, for some inane, strange reason, on a PAYG tariff with one of my T-Mobile accounts. I asked them, ages ago, to swap me to their lowest plan — which was some UFIX Talk thing.
I’m not entirely sure what’s going on. They are billing me per month. Right?
Yet I’ve got a price plan balance. [...]
According to a a Reuters report, Orange isn’t having any trouble drumming up interest in the iPhone launch in Poland today - in fact, it’s already got queues forming outside its shops. Nothing new there you might think.
Think again. The queuers are being paid to stand in line. From the article:
“We have these fake queues [...]
Got a note in from a reader:
My girlfriend is on Orange and whenever she calls landlines, the sound is distorted and she can hear herself talking, calling mobiles - its perfect.. shes had 5 different phones - still the same fault. Any thoughts?
Very strange. My Orange connection is fine with landlines. It [...]
What better way to convince people to buy your mobile broadband than by giving them a free laptop? That seems to be the thinking behind Orange’s latest move in the 3G data world.
Now, for anyone who fancies signing up on a two year mobile broadband contract, Orange is giving away a dinky Asus eee [...]
Mobile Industry Review Show - 19 from Ewan MacLeod on Vimeo.
Here, then, is Mobile Industry Review on location.
Yes! This Saturday, we headed down to sunny Brighton on the south coast of England, to visit the inaugural social media cafe (”Tuttle Club”) establishing itself in the town.
We’ve got a packed episode of pure joy for [...]
Social networker Bebo has got itself a brand spanking new head of mobile, the form of Sean Kane, former GM of International at mobile social networking platform provider Intercasting - the two companies already have a relationship, with Bebo using Intercasting’s Anthem platform/
Bebo has already got a few deals with mobile operators in the [...]
Seen this around? Orange UK are running one of those align-ourselves-with-successful-people campaigns. Lots of interesting interviews with sharp entrepreneurs. Looks interesting. You can visit the site here.
My issue? I’m not accustomed to visiting any site, ANYWHERE that requires you to download a 36mb file in the oldskoool manner.
I [...]
It’s now August and the kids have begun playing in the square outside my flat. Well, they do when it’s not pouring down.
So, I’m beginning to really look forward to a holiday too. Its booked for a couple of weeks time and I’ve not even contemplated anything I’ll need. I guess the mad rush around [...]
I’ll give credit, where credit is due, and despite my ramble about Data Charges yesterday (which I still think are appalling), Orange have tried very hard to redeem themselves.
They’ve given me back some more credit, and given me free evening browsing, and bundle thing for a month. So thank you!
What’s more amazing was that this [...]
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