After my call for opinion on Orange UK, I’m pleased to be able to publish this viewpoint from reader, Kat, who reckons they’re actually pretty good. Kat has even taken out their 250mb data plan…
I’ve been with Orange probably for the last 10 years and if I’m honest I haven’t really had a problem with them. I recently upgraded to a shiny new N82 (having read Whatleydude’s review on your site) and while I did that, I also added on the 250MB per month data bundle.
Admittedly it was a new bundle so they struggled to find it on the system (the shop knew about it but upgrades didn’t) and me being untrusting called to check later that day to find they’d only put a 30MB bundle on, but that was fixed straight away. It could of course have been pretty messy had I not checked and then over used my data allocation. So when my bill arrived yesterday I wanted to be absolutely sure that it was all OK, it was, everything had been corrected, my 100MB unused has been carried over for next month and in total my bill was the grand sum of £65.
For those that are interested that breaks down as £35 Canary (giving 500 texts and 300 mins), a 15 photo bundle which off the top of my head is £5, the £8 – 250MB data package and the £15 I pay for 3GB of 3G data via my laptop dongle. Throw in my Magic Number usage (almost free calls to other named Orange users) and I barely use any of my calling minutes, I also struggle less for coverage on Orange than I do on Vodafone (work phone)
I guess that makes me an Orange fan!
Thank for this comment Kat!
As an aside to ^
I just rang to get this activated on my account and the guy at first said that this was only available to Blackberry handhelds, (I have N95), and I asked him to go check with his manager.
He did and he apologised and activated the bundle.
So now I have unlimited weekend and evening data and 250mb for during the day which is more than sufficient for
Excellent work.
Glad to be of assistance on the review front too.
🙂
The problem I had with Orange was just one thing – data plan prices.
It's good to hear they are improving but will still need to go someway to match T-Mobile's Gigabytes of data for
Agreed!
I purchased a Vodacom Modem while in South Africa. I was told it would work in the UK and USA. However, in the USA, I would need to find a Sims card that would convert over to data in order for the modem to work on the Internet. Does anyone know where I can purchase a sims card in the USA or that would work in the USA, that would convert over to data in order for me to use my Modem? If I am right, and if I could convert it over – perhaps I could access the Internet using my Vadacom Modem.
Cristder
I purchased a Vodacom Modem while in South Africa. I was told it would work in the UK and USA. However, in the USA, I would need to find a Sims card that would convert over to data in order for the modem to work on the Internet. Does anyone know where I can purchase a sims card in the USA or that would work in the USA, that would convert over to data in order for me to use my Modem? If I am right, and if I could convert it over – perhaps I could access the Internet using my Vadacom Modem.
Cristder
I just rang to get this activated on my account and the guy at first said that this was only available to Blackberry handhelds, (I have N95), and I asked him to go check with his manager. He did and he apologised and activated the bundle.
club penguin
I just rang to get this activated on my account and the guy at first said that this was only available to Blackberry handhelds, (I have N95), and I asked him to go check with his manager. He did and he apologised and activated the bundle.
club penguin