Steve Terry wrote in uk.telecom.mobile
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> My new 3 contract, Nokia 6120 on 6 months of 300m&m
> for 15 quid p/m, is working out great.
Hey, snap! I've just recently done virtually the same! :-)
(And my number port has just completed this afternoon, all perfectly
smoothly!)
OK, I went for 500 mins as I figured that once I factored in 50 - 100 texts
a month I'd better make sure to have enough spare for talktime. And Internet
Max too - which I'm busily abusing in a burst of new-toy-ness: I just hope
the BBC don't pull the now-deprecated RealPlayer radio streams entirely, as
they're ideal for phone use.. (Yow, Google Maps sure eats data, though!)
Three deserve much kudos for their contracts, which, as I'm now discovering,
make having a mobile *contract* exactly what it always should have been:
reasonable prices (and a much better deal than PAYG even at the lower end),
no need to worry about peak hours, or which network you're calling, no need
to worry about voicemail costs, and by and large, no need to worry about data
costs either. Anytime, anywhere: news, weather, bus times, train times,
radio and music, That's exactly what the mobile internet is about. I get
it now (figuratively and literally!). How did I ever manage without? ;-)
> if Orange offered something similar, it would be called something
> like Rhinoceros 97
Orange would probably charge GBP 40/month for something approaching
the above. And have only half as many minutes, still no free voicemail,
the data bundle would only be worth 200 MB, but you'd get a ludicrous
number of inclusive texts..
And to think that if Orange were still able to offer me the exact equivalent
of my Three contract through good old OVP, they would probably actually still
have me, out of some misguided sense of loyalty and general network
reliability. Ah, but they locked-down OVP, d'oh!
Just how dumb can they get?
> The future's bright, the future's anyone else but FT Orange.
Three *is* the magic number.
(Mind you, we'll see if I'm still saying that in 6 months, of course. But with
a 6 month contract, if I'm not happy by then, I can just port again..)
> (Unless you work (sorry collect huge undeserved amounts of wages)
> for Oranges up their own arse PR depts)
That reminds me: I just need to remember to apply for an Orange PAYG SIM for
my old phone so that I can continue to make use of Orange Wednesdays; that's
pretty much the only thing Orange have going for them now..
David.
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David M. -- Edinburgh, Scotland. --[en,fr,(de) <-- corrections welcome]
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