Link: News | Orange to offer targeted SMS ads – NMA New Media Age report that Orange is to bring SMS marketing to their directory enquiry service. According to the article, after a consumer calls the service on 118 000, they will receive a text message with the information requested, along with a relevent advert. Orange have [...]
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Orange breach UK Data Protection Act
Link: Orange and Littlewoods breach Data Protection Act, says ICO | OUT-LAW.COM (Via The Register) The UK Information Commisioner’s Office have today ruled that Orange breached the Data Protection Act’s security rules. The case followed a complaint about the way Orange processed personal information – in particular they were allowing new staff to share usernames and passwords for [...]
Orange unlimited data plan limited to 30MB
Link: Orange simplifies data by capping at 30MB | The Register Orange has launched its unmetered-mobile-data tariff for the UK – but unexpectedly capped it at 30MB a month. The tariff is available to pre-paid as well as contract customers, and costs a fiver for evening and weekend use, or £8 for anytime unmetered data [...]
Avon Calling.. on your mobile
Link: Ding Dong! Avon Calling The cosmetics company, Avon is reported to be considering launching an MVNO in Poland within the next few weeks. PMR Business newspaper said that the network, under the myAvon name, will use the infrastructure of PTK Centertel, the operator of the Orange mobile network. It will address its offer chiefly [...]
Orange and their corporate bull
Courtesy of this week’s edition of celeb gossip email Popbitch .. Orange are preparing a novel Glastonbury competition. They have a bull fitted with GPS in a field in Cornwall, which is divided into squares. Guess which square the bull is in at mid-day each day for two weeks before the festival and you could win tickets. [...]
Devon village gets phone podium
Link: The Sun Online – News: The only signal in the village We’ve probably all done silly things in our time to improve reception during a mobile call – sticking my head out the window springs to mind for me. However, I think this one takes the biscuit ever so slightly! LOCALS have been queuing [...]
BBC talks to Truphone about N95 VOIP woes
Link: Truphone Blog – Internet telephony on Nokia mobile phones James Tagg, Truphone’s founder today appeared on BBC Radio 4′s You and Yours consumer affairs programme to discuss the controversy caused by some operators disabling internet telephony on the Nokia N95 Wicked. You can have a listen to the interview here.
Orange can’t do new unlimited tariff, apparently
Link: Orange Value Promise not as much value as promised | The Register Having spent the past few weeks merrily redefining the the word ‘unlimited’ even more so than it’d been screwed previously by their competitors and the broadband sector, Orange have apparently set their sights on price matching. Back in the day, price match meant [...]
Orange to improve Virgin Trains 3G coverage
Link: Virgin Trains speeds towards on-board 3G mobile network – 11/May/2007 – ComputerWeekly.com Virgin Trains is partnering with mobile operator Orange to improve on-board 2G and 3G mobile voice and data services to Virgin Voyager passengers. Eighteen Voyager trains have already been upgraded, and the system will ultimately benefit passengers on all 78 trains operating [...]
Orange’s international calling card sim boosts confusion
Link: Orange’s attempt at fighting call cards >> Communication Breakdown >> David Meyer’s Blog at ZDNet UK Community News just in from France Telecom’s local subsidiary: it’s introducing a “simple and low cost” way to call abroad. Is it lowering its international call rates? No! Don’t be silly. It’s putting out the Call Abroad pay-as-you-go [...]
Orange winds everyone up with it’s shite ‘unlimited-but-sort-of-not’ data rubbish
So, to all the people reading who emailed me saying ‘Right, but that Orange flat rate data plan will be a pile of shite’, I say this: You were right. Me? I was erring on the side of positivity. I was hoping that by saying ‘unlimited browsing’ they meant unlimited data — which is what [...]
Orange offer overdraft facility
Link: Orange becomes more like bank: launches overdraft facility | The Register Just when you thought the world of mobile billing and tariffs couldn’t get any weirder, Orange have come up with a new cunning plan to make mo.. I mean help their customers. Mobile phone customers signing up to Orange’s new Speakeasy pre-pay tariff [...]
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