Orange

...I have been a loyal Orange customer for the past SIX years does not mean that this is going to be a glowing review, far from it. However, I will leave my reasons for that till a bit later on and explain how the company works, a bit about the service plans and the way they offer their phones and what they do to them. How can you get an Orange phone? ********************************* There are a few different options for this. Firstly, you can go ...
...very orange funnily enough) you have access to all of their range from the cheapest PAYG (pay as you go) phone, right through the range up to the most expensive models on a contract. The shops are quite nice, and most of them for some reason have a big fish tank full of, surprisingly enough, goldfish! As you open the door, there is a stand with the current issue of their sales brochure. Take it from me, pick one up as you are likely to be standing ...

drewboy 03.02.2005 · Read full review
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...in my madness when choosing Orange as my mobile phone network supplier. I seem to recall that the nice salesperson in the Carphone Warehouse advised me when trying to pick and choose between a number of different Pay as You Go (PAYG) tariffs over the various networks that it would make sense given my planned limited usage to simply join the same network that most of my friends were on. That, as you might have guessed, was Orange. Back in those ...
...a nice Nokia 3210e on Orange PAYG for £99.99. I've been an Orange customer since then and in all that time, I've not had any major problems. Currently, Orange offers many different types of service plan for both PAYG and pay monthly customers. These can be found online at http://www.orange.co.uk/ and are laid out in an easy to read fashion. It's also worth noting that Orange also offers some exclusive online plans, too. I've no doubt that there's ...

TheDuke 14.03.2005 (15.01.2006) · Read full review
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...with Pay as you Go, Orange gives you flexibility. You can choose from a number of different options to make sure that you're paying for what is convenient for you, whether it be cheaper calls, with no peak and off-peak times, cheaper text messages, choosing your own peak and off-peak times or having fixed call rates all day....the possibilities are endless! And with pay as you go, you get answer phone, WAP access, GPRS.....and you can use your phone ...
...Orange website. *****************CONTRACT******************** This is where the fun starts! There are currently three different service plans available, each of which are explained in detail below: YOUR PLAN: Basically, you choose bundles of talk time at a fixed charge, and bundles of text messages if you want them, and thus create your ideal package. £15.00 gets you 30 minutes of talktime a month, at any time during the day - the number of minutes ...

emmorticia 13.03.2003 (24.03.2003) · Read full review
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...The service provider would be Orange and the new phone, a Motorola Talkabout (T2288e). And a WAP phone, no less. Oh yes, sounds like a bargain and my old phone was chunky and outdated and a holiday would sure be good. I had a few requirements of my own however. My husband was already on Orange and had been for a few years. I was on BT Cellnet and had finished the tie-in period. But I wanted to keep my current phone number as firstly, it’s ...
...mobile number to my new Orange account. Great. So my next requirement was this: Hubby and I had previously decided that we should combine a mobile account to save money, or at the very least that we should both be on the same network. Again I was assured that this was no problem and yes he could also keep his number. His reasons were mainly due to the length of time that he’d had his previous phone, which meant that some of the buttons were ...

joannavos 10.07.2001 · Read full review
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Currently Orange Pay As You Go offers three different distinctive call-charge plans that you can select from according to when you like to use your mobile and for how long. The three plans on offer are named (fairly self-explanatorily) ‘Fixed Rates All Day’, ‘Choose Your Own Off-Peak’ (formerly known as Just Talk Original but more comparison between the old and the new later) and ‘Talk and Save’ (a reincarnation of Just Talk Plus). So What Exactly ...
...calls to landlines and other Orange mobiles for example are 20p per minute at all times (compare this to the 10p a minute you could be paying for these calls at off-peak times on ‘Choose Your Own Off-Peak’ or 5p a minute after the first 3 minutes on ‘Talk and Save’ and the 10p on weekday evenings and 5p at weekends offered by O2 Online Original and you can see that calls on this plan really do add up and unless you use your phone equally much at ...

tiggerishone 28.09.2003 · Read full review
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...£14.99? This was exactly what Orange were offering a year and a half ago when I got my phone (on Orange Pay as You Go) along with a surprise little black box for Christmas… This little black box was the home of my ‘Orange Out Here’ pack, one of its contents being a rather cool little black beach bag with the big Orange logo on one side (obviously the side not on show when I’m wearing it…he he) and c u L8r in suitably computerised looking writing ...
...r u?’ in the little orange squarey writing. On the reverse is the girl who he was obviously supposed to be meeting who is, from the picture, clearly somewhere else, possibly somewhere in the country by the looks of the picture. There is also her text-messaged reply to him ‘I’m here’. Needless to say, this poster has remained lying in the little black box gathering dust, but it does serve, in my opinion, to illustrate the advantages of Orange Out ...

tiggerishone 05.09.2003 · Read full review
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...pre-paid tariff before changing to Orange Just Talk for my infrequent visits to Britain. Admittedly pre-paid would drive me bonkers if I had to use it the whole time as topping up seems to become the bane of someone’s life. The main reason for choosing the Orange Just Talk PAYG solution was the fact that the SIM card doesn’t ever expire, whereas with Genie PAYG I had to keep topping up the card monthly in order to keep my card active. Whilst it ...
...lot of them being on Orange too it made sense to get an Orange phone – all my family are now on Orange too. The great thing with Just Talk Plus is that there is no peak and off peak time, so you don’t have to think about what time of day to call if you want to save money. The calling plan is very simple, With the first three minutes to landlines and other Orange phones being charged at 25p a minute (admittedly this is a lot more than my contract ...

Morgenhund 02.08.2002 · Read full review
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...to convince you all that Orange really is the best... well depending on the circumstances! WHOSE IT FOR THEN... 1. First time phone buyers 2. Young teenagers or children 3. Anyone that only wants to use their phone for emergencies 4. Anyone that will rarely use there phone or not that often Looing for a new phone? Are you a first time phone buyer? ~ With all the latest, modern technology around us you can ask most people for help, especially ...
...this from Argos or the Orange shop) There are many more Orange deals around that you can hunt down and look for ~ All sound great! PRICE PLANS You used to be able to buy the minimum of a £5 top-up voucher however they DID stop doing this which was pretty bad for me because I only ever had the odd fiver spare!!! But now you can purchase £5 top-up again, but only via 1 way which I will explain soon. (Electronic-top-up.) The price plans for 'Just ...

emu128 25.11.2001 · Read full review
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I have been with the Orange network since owning my first mobile phone at the age of 16 (13 years ago) and (touch wood) I have encountered very little problems with them. At present my partner and I have both our mobile phones and our home broadband with Orange because we believe they offer good customer service as well as cost efficient prices. The Broadband we get from them amounts to just £5.00 with unlimited downloads which is an offer they advertise ...
...limited downloads instead. Orange offer a wide range of contracts to suit all needs. There are 3 different groups of contract offered by orange which are named Racoon, Dolphin and Panther. Should you be after inclusive text messages then a Dolphin contract would suit you best. If you are after inclusive landline minutes then Dolphin would be best for you and should you be after offers on email/talk packages then Panther would suit your needs best. ...

bexx0907 16.10.2009 · Read full review
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I have been using the Orange Pay as You Go network for some time now. While browsing in the Orange shop I came across a package that seemed just to good to be true. The package was called the ‘Orange Out here’ package. As me curious to know everything I approached the desk and as expected treated with respect and approached with manor. The package costs £14.99, which I thought was brilliant value for money and a must for all text’a’holics’. ...
...1 month! The Orange Out Here Package comes in a little box like the one you receive when buying your mobile phone. The box has various pictures on the front. Contents! The box contains a card, which you will use to register to receive the £5 talktime, which is included in the £14.99. You register the card and that will automatically give you 5 FREE text messages per day. (I’m sure I receive 10 FREE but the Orange website says 5). In the box ...

wilsam00 02.01.2002 · Read full review
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I've been with Orange for about 2 years now and think their service is by far the best compared with other phone operators. I have friends on other networks and they're gradually changing over to Orange and I myself used to be with One2One. My original talk plan when I signed up was Everyday 50 which was exactly what I wanted. I was a student doing a one year placement in London and needed to use my phone during the evening. However, at the end of ...
...So I went into an Orange shop and asked about their cheapest tariff. I was told that if I joined the Virgin Value Plan then I wouldn't have to pay line rental and would be charged exactly the same as Virgin customers, plus I'd have the benefits of Orange (great customer helpline, good network coverage and www.orange.net). So that's what I did. As my 12 month contract had expired I didn't have to pay for the phone so transferring over was as simple ...

richardleonard 27.08.2001 · Read full review
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...I can just phone the Orange people up and transfer money from my bank account using the magic of plastic. This is convenient and helpful. In fact, whenever I have contacted Orange customer support they have been very helpful, even when I asked advice on carrying out an activity of which Orange disapprove - transferring my SIM card to a new phone. Coverage is good, and there is always some new schme to save you mony or at least stop you from getting ...
...at all. All in all I am very happy with Orange so far. The package I have caters to my needs very well, and so I can only recommend them. That said, I have no real experience of the competition, so maybe there's someone out there doing it better. ...

dogscoff 16.07.2001 · Read full review
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...am about to reveal. Orange offers a stupidly high number of tariffs. In fact, more than any other network. This is because of their value match policy, which means that if you like the look of another tariff on any UK network, they will let you have it on their network. Tariffs change or are updated frequently, information is available from their website, detailed at the end of this review. Personally I chose the Everyday 50 plan before it was ...
...calls every day to other Orange mobiles or non-premium-rate landlines (i.e. local rate and national rate are included). Off peak calls are available at nights after 7pm, mornings before 7am and all day on weekends. Text messages (SMS) are available at 10p each on my tariff although this is variable on the tariff chosen. This plan costs 50p per day, so the monthly charge depends on the number of days in the month (total cost between £14 and £15.50). ...

magicloudz 18.04.2003 · Read full review
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...an offer on Ciao called Orange Out Here. After scanning the Orange website on several occasions without success I finally made a call to customer services who helped me out. Orange Out Here has now changed and is officially called Orange Text Saver. The original service offered Orange ‘pay as you go’ customers the option to pay a one off fee of £15 to get five free text messages a day for the rest of the time that they had the phone…too good to be ...
...similar in that it offers Orange pay as you go customers five free texts messages a day but at the cost of £19.99 a year. They also throw in £5 worth of free call time which means that you are paying £15 for the equivalent of 1825 text messages a year. One downfall of this offer is that the text messages do not rollover. So if you text 1 person on one day and nine the next you will end up paying for the extra four messages you sent on the second ...

Benniash 26.11.2003 · Read full review
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...1 General Advice 2 Orange Pre-pay (Pay as you go) 3 Orange Contracts. 4 Broadband 1 General Advice. The best advice I can give you to start of with is not to use a 3rd party retailer - especially if it's a cash back scheme. I was one placed onto the most expensive contract by a fraudulent retailer, Mobiles4Free, who declared himself bankrupt, and ran away with every customers money - millions. I made the mistake of taking up The Link's offer, ...
...get a BASIC deal from Orange - ie: 500 texts instead of unlimited, and should things go wrong, you'll be sent between network and retailer, again and again and again. And Orange will claim they have NO RESPONSIBILITY. Instead, go to the network store. For as long as the network exists, the stores will - and it will always be THEIR responsibility to sort your problems out. It also helps add a more human face to the company, when you can talk to someone ...

IdealA2 17.10.2007 · Read full review
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