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A (good news) Orange mobile data story

Check out this story from Mike Smith — he’s added it as a comment to this post from last April: SMS Text News » Archives » Unlimited data on Orange UK for £8 a month. No, I’m not kidding!

Unbelievable!!! I was on a £4.00 per month unlimited GPRS wap package with Orange for 4 years. When I say unlimited, it was subject to a fair usage policy of 10mbs per month. So much for unlimited!!! I was actually using 400-500mbs per month, on a regular basis, and no one said a word.
I then upgraded to a Nokia N95, not one of my better decisions, but I needed access to Orange internet, not wap. I was offered a £5.00 per month unlimited off peak bundle, or an anytime 30mb bundle for £8.00 per month. 30mbs, I would have got through that in an hour!!! I reluctantly opted for the off peak package, at least I wouldn’t need to re-mortgage the house at the end of the month!

Just by chance I rang customer services (now there’s a breach of the trades description act) to see if any new data plans had become available that would be more suitable. To my surprise, and great delight, I was offered anytime unlimited usage for £8.00 per month. Now that’s a bargain in anyones book, so I grabbed it straight away.

Knowing Orange of old, they may suddenly realise just how generous that is and withdraw it, just like they did with my £4.00 wap package. The bottom line is, they can withdraw the offer, but if you are already on the plan, they can’t take you off of it. My advice would be to grab it while it’s available, and if you change your service plan, don’t be talked out of giving it up. Make it plain you keep want to keep the data bundle no matter what. £8.00 per month unlimited internet usage is a very good deal indeed, now if only it was possible to get a connection………………………………:-))

Are you on Orange? What’s your story with mobile data? I always thought Orange was the black sheep of the UK operators with a ridiculous set of data rates.

5 COMMENTS

  1. The only unlimited Orange Data plan I have heard of released recently (about a month or so ago I think), was £25+ VAT, so thats 30 quid to you and me, for 3gig a month.

    Any idea of what they are calling this £8 plan?

    I’ll phone up customer dis-services tomorrow, if I’m feeling brave, and find out what the score is……

    Steve Rowlands’s last blog post..Biggest Test For My N95 Just Around The Corner

  2. There is an Orange data unlimited plan, the only reason that I can see for it not being widely published is that it’s aimed about people with monthly plans of £35+ for some reason.

    My post here – http://drrobevans.com/2007/02/15/orange-unlimited-data-package/ garned 27 comments on the subject.

    Some of the comments cover what to specifically ask for and I’ve even give my mobile number to poeple so that the operator can look it up and check that it’s real.

    When you get the unlimited* plan, it’s pretty good, £8inc of vat for the data plan is good value.

    unlimited* obviously means there’s a cap 1gb, but I’ve never managed to the most I’ve managed of legitimate use is 600mb’s.

    Orange has also rolled out HSDPA (3.5G) in lot’s of places so the data speeds are great.

    DISCLOSURE: I work for the Orange FT Group.

    Rob Evans’s last blog post..de-centralized me

  3. i also have this package and i have to say that its a beauty…I am on the internet all the time now and I love it…I go on all that sites that me phone allow me to and im on the facebook, twitter, ebay, weather news sites all the time and my bill is perfect..I had me bill and its all come out of the price of the package…SO LISTEN UP EVERY1… GET THIS DEAL AND KEEP IT….

  4. i also have this package and i have to say that its a beauty…I am on the internet all the time now and I love it…I go on all that sites that me phone allow me to and im on the facebook, twitter, ebay, weather news sites all the time and my bill is perfect..I had me bill and its all come out of the price of the package…SO LISTEN UP EVERY1… GET THIS DEAL AND KEEP IT….

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