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I need to leave Orange. Best option for a low call/high data user?
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| LeeJS 2006-11-16, 12:33 pm |
| I'm currently using a Hermes/tytn clone on the Orange network with my
old 1990's SIM card on a Virgin OVP tariff. My phone bills are rarely
more than £4 or £5 a month. My company pays for my data access on top
of call charges.
Orange have told me that unless I budge from my cosy occupancy of the
OVP tariff I can't have access to any 3G services. They won't send me
a 3G SIM and I can't 'officially' upgrade the handset to get one
unless I move to a proper tariff. By this they mean one that wastes my
money on call bundles I would never use.
As such, I've decided switching to PAYG is the only option open to me.
I'm tempted by the T-Mobile web and walk plans but I see the £7.50
option is available on pay monthly only.
Would I be able to get my number ported on to a T-Mob 'SIM only' pay
monthly account and add web and walk for another £7.50?
Any other ideas? I'm open to any suggestions!
Lee.
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lee at w2designs dot co dot uk
If I have one flaw, it's that I'm a perfectoinist.
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| lee@nospamw2designs.co.uk declared for all the world to hear...
> I'm currently using a Hermes/tytn clone on the Orange network with my
> old 1990's SIM card on a Virgin OVP tariff. My phone bills are rarely
> more than £4 or £5 a month. My company pays for my data access on top
> of call charges.
>
> Orange have told me that unless I budge from my cosy occupancy of the
> OVP tariff I can't have access to any 3G services. They won't send me
> a 3G SIM and I can't 'officially' upgrade the handset to get one
> unless I move to a proper tariff. By this they mean one that wastes my
> money on call bundles I would never use.
>
> As such, I've decided switching to PAYG is the only option open to me.
> I'm tempted by the T-Mobile web and walk plans but I see the £7.50
> option is available on pay monthly only.
>
> Would I be able to get my number ported on to a T-Mob 'SIM only' pay
> monthly account and add web and walk for another £7.50?
>
> Any other ideas? I'm open to any suggestions!
Get a t-mobile contract on a 3G phone and flog the phone on eBay, put
teh SIM in your tytn.
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Regards
Jon
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| Steve Dulieu 2006-11-16, 10:33 pm |
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"LeeJS" <lee@nospamw2designs.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2j5pl25r50qg808
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> I'm currently using a Hermes/tytn clone on the Orange network with my
> old 1990's SIM card on a Virgin OVP tariff. My phone bills are rarely
> more than £4 or £5 a month. My company pays for my data access on top
> of call charges.
>
> Orange have told me that unless I budge from my cosy occupancy of the
> OVP tariff I can't have access to any 3G services. They won't send me
> a 3G SIM and I can't 'officially' upgrade the handset to get one
> unless I move to a proper tariff. By this they mean one that wastes my
> money on call bundles I would never use.
>
> As such, I've decided switching to PAYG is the only option open to me.
> I'm tempted by the T-Mobile web and walk plans but I see the £7.50
> option is available on pay monthly only.
>
> Would I be able to get my number ported on to a T-Mob 'SIM only' pay
> monthly account and add web and walk for another £7.50?
>
> Any other ideas? I'm open to any suggestions!
>
If you take this tariff,
http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/Dispatche...nal_sim_only_pm
you can add web n walk to it for an extra £7.50 pm making £15 pm total (the
trick is to phone T-Mobile CS to get the tariff rather than getting it via
the web). You can port your OVP number on to it by getting your PAC from
Orange, then phoning the T-Mobile number porting line on 0845 412 5000. You
do not have to port in when you join, any time up to 6 months after
connection will do.
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Cheers, Steve.
Change from jealous to sad to reply.
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| simonclark123@hotmail.com 2006-11-16, 10:33 pm |
| I would definitely follow Steve's advice.
AFAIK only Orange have this ridiculous practice of refusing to issue a
3g sim if requested - I'm about to move my main (Orange non 3g sim)
number into my Orange Business contract as an additional sharer and put
it into an Orange M3100. Will Orange supply me with a 3g sim (I don't
even mind paying!)? No.
AFAIK most other providers don't even have different sims for 3g and
non 3g any more - when I asked T-Mobile, they didn't even understand
the question, and eventually someone at T-Mobile told me all their new
sims are 3g anyway.
As an Orange customer for nearly 10 years, my data usage is now 100%
T-Mobile; not only do I have 3g but HSDPA. On the Business Tariff I
took out recently with Orange, I should have had 2 months free 'Try 3g'
- this was removed from my account in error after just over 2 weeks,
but because this particular offer no longer existed by then, they were
unable to correct their error!
Regards
Simon Clark
Business Telecoms
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| On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:42:40 -0000, Jon <spam@jonparker.plus.com>
wrote:
>lee@nospamw2designs.co.uk declared for all the world to hear...
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>Get a t-mobile contract on a 3G phone and flog the phone on eBay, put
>teh SIM in your tytn.
Er..you mean a contract that costs me £30+ a month forever for calls I
won't ever use? Compared to the £6 a month tops I spend now? Thanks
for the suggestion but that doesn't like very good value to me.
Lee.
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lee at w2designs dot co dot uk
If I have one flaw, it's that I'm a perfectoinist.
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| hairydog@despammed.com 2006-11-17, 7:33 am |
| On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:57:19 +0000, LeeJS <lee@nospamw2designs.co.uk>
wrote:
>As such, I've decided switching to PAYG is the only option open to me.
>I'm tempted by the T-Mobile web and walk plans but I see the £7.50
>option is available on pay monthly only.
>
>Would I be able to get my number ported on to a T-Mob 'SIM only' pay
>monthly account and add web and walk for another £7.50?
>
>Any other ideas? I'm open to any suggestions!
I suggest T-mobile PAYG. The GPRS/3G looks quite expensive at £7.50
per MB, but the cost is capped at £1 per day.
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Iain
the out-of-date hairydog guide to mobile phones
http://www.hairydog.co.uk/cell1.html
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| R. Mark Clayton 2006-11-17, 3:33 pm |
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"LeeJS" <lee@nospamw2designs.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2j5pl25r50qg808
onhopuo88s1cavapga8@
4ax.com...
> I'm currently using a Hermes/tytn clone on the Orange network with my
> old 1990's SIM card on a Virgin OVP tariff. My phone bills are rarely
> more than £4 or £5 a month. My company pays for my data access on top
> of call charges.
>
> Orange have told me that unless I budge from my cosy occupancy of the
> OVP tariff I can't have access to any 3G services. They won't send me
> a 3G SIM and I can't 'officially' upgrade the handset to get one
> unless I move to a proper tariff. By this they mean one that wastes my
> money on call bundles I would never use.
>
> As such, I've decided switching to PAYG is the only option open to me.
> I'm tempted by the T-Mobile web and walk plans but I see the £7.50
> option is available on pay monthly only.
>
> Would I be able to get my number ported on to a T-Mob 'SIM only' pay
> monthly account and add web and walk for another £7.50?
>
> Any other ideas? I'm open to any suggestions!
>
> Lee.
> --
> lee at w2designs dot co dot uk
>
> If I have one flaw, it's that I'm a perfectoinist.
>
Get a twin SIM unit for whatever phone you fancy.
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| hairydog@despammed.com 2006-11-27, 10:33 pm |
| On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:54:12 GMT, Dave C <enlli@despammed.com> wrote:
>The amount of data is 'unlimited' but
>only available via the phones browser
Allegedly.
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Iain
the out-of-date hairydog guide to mobile phones
http://www.hairydog.co.uk/cell1.html
Browse now while stocks last!
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