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 Apr 3 2006, 10:23
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 Regular  Group: Posters Posts: 131 Joined: 19th June 2003 Member No.: 8,417 Device(s): Orange SPV C500  |
Well I thought it was an april fools joke but no, it looks like they are serious about them new tariffs.
Pay more, get less - the futures bright.......but not with Orange bye bye france telecom! JB |
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Apr 3 2006, 10:53
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Newbie  Group: Members Posts: 0 Joined: 3rd April 2006 Member No.: 182,188 |
I thought it as a joke too, had been looking to get a new contract but was waiting till april 1st to see whether it would be worthwhile sticking with Orange or if they were serious. Went into a Orange shop on the 1st and lo and behold, it was true!! You could also see that there was nobody in the Orange shop, but the T mobile shop down the road was buzzing with people. The Orange shop just had a load of sales people looking glum.
Anyway, after a quick look at the Orange prices i went down the road to T mobile and signed up there and then. How can orange hope to compare when other networks are offering such better deals plus not being labelled as a 'raccoon' or other such silly animals!?? Mark QUOTE(jbrare @ Apr 3 2006, 11:23)  Well I thought it was an april fools joke but no, it looks like they are serious about them new tariffs.
Pay more, get less - the futures bright.......but not with Orange bye bye france telecom! JB |
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Apr 3 2006, 11:09
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 iSpork  Group: MoDaCo Plus Posts: 537 Joined: 15th February 2005 From: Staffs Member No.: 110,894 Device(s): SE K800, MDA Pro |
FYI: Orange read these forums, So everybody should let them know what they think of the new talkplans
 Personally, in the face of tmobile, Orange are going to suffer majorly - especially given that their level of Customer Service in the past 12-18 months has nose dived considerably. They don't have many good members of staff anymore 
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Apr 3 2006, 11:28
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Regular Group: Posters Posts: 131 Joined: 19th June 2003 Member No.: 8,417 Device(s): Orange SPV C500 |
QUOTE(sporkguy @ Apr 3 2006, 11:09) FYI: Orange read these forums, So everybody should let them know what they think of the new talkplans Personally, in the face of tmobile, Orange are going to suffer majorly - especially given that their level of Customer Service in the past 12-18 months has nose dived considerably. They don't have many good members of staff anymore If they are indeed reading these threads then I really hope they take note that people are NOT happy! I for one think the talk plans are far too rigid. You are also expected to pay more for less! The 1p for a delivery report is a total rip off in every sense of the word - the bloody text costs 12p for gods sake on the new plans!! Also you only get any of the "benefits" of each animal talk plan if you take out an 18 month contract - I for one will NEVER take out an 18 month contract, far too long a time for them to guarantee my business!! For example, free answer phone and insurance is thrown in on the racoon plan ONLY on an 18 month contract from ?25+. This is NOT available to 12 month contracts ?25+!!!!!!! Disgrace!!!!!!!! As talked about before, 90% of CS are total rubbish and Tech support is 110% useless - why is it you can't talk to them direct???Do they exist???the truth is out there!!! I thought Orange were top$$$ when I first joined but now...................... Thanks france telecom, stick to messing up your own companies in future! In the interest of balance, Orange are now charging the same as O2 and Voda for comparable talk plans but for the money, you get more little extras with O2 and Voda. Looks like I'll be heading off to another operator in June. JB |
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Apr 3 2006, 12:48
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 Timelord  Group: Posters Posts: 1,597 Joined: 6th September 2003 From: Gallifrey Member No.: 15,319 |
Orange can stick their call plans up their a***. And I am on a great price match from a few years ago!!!! If I was on a 'standard' tariff I would have jumped a while ago. Just waiting for a decent phone to be available on T-Mob, although with the money I would save I could jump now and probably afford to buy a SIM free!
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Apr 3 2006, 16:22
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 Regular Group: Posters Posts: 53 Joined: 25th July 2004 From: Plymouth,UK (But Bristol born & bred) Member No.: 50,790 Device(s): SPV E650, C550, SE P910i,E200 |
I agree the new price plans are ridiculous.
I agree the new labelling of animals "racoons" etc is bizarre. BUT I don't agree that orange customer service is completely crap or gone totally downhill. Comparing all the networks over the last years editions of mobile news random surveys orange have come in first place more times than any network. I appreciate that might not be everyones experience. It is not even my own on every occasion. There will always be some idiot who doesn't know what they are doing or is not on the ball with the latest deals etc. You get this with any network. Look at the different info we all experienced with the new web'n'walk from t mobile customer service. Different emails from customer service or frontline csr's As an employee myself (uh oh opening myself up to fronline banshing) I know that mistakes can be made. I get calls recorded and consistantlycome out top for customer service both on quality checks and from customer callbacks to customers BUT even last week with the launch of magic numbers I accidently cam out some wrong information on how the product worked. And worse I think it was a test call to see if we were all on the ball. If orange were all bad they wouldn't still be getting new customers. Yes. believe it or not they are gaining more customers than they are losing. I take more calls every day from people telling me they are porting in than porting out. The new deals ? Yeah, I agree but some of the other deals are quite good. The payg deals are pretty good as well. An amazing number of people of going from contract to payg and I think more will do the same now because of these silly plans, not because of the customer service. |
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Apr 3 2006, 17:29
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 Addict Group: Posters Posts: 807 Joined: 29th November 2002 From: Sheffield Member No.: 279 Device(s): V1615 |
I think Orange have always offered poorer value for money than the other networks, but I was prepared to put up with it for the excellent customer service/good range of handsets. Sadly the other networks have caught up whilst Orange has slipped. I'll be jumping ship when this contract's up along with at least 6 other people I know.
I think they're only interested in customers now if they spend ?100+/month or are on a business tariff. Fair enough I suppose - they exist to make money after all, but if they have no intention of being even vaguely competitive for the "light" non-business user, why remain in that market? |
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Apr 3 2006, 19:47
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Timelord Group: Posters Posts: 1,597 Joined: 6th September 2003 From: Gallifrey Member No.: 15,319 |
Nope, they are s*** for heavy users too. I spend at least ?150 a month over two handsets, often ?250 a month, and for 3 months before Xmas one of my handsets was faulty. Because it didn't fit a nice tidy description of their fault list they refused to replace it. For 3 months I phone up two to three times a week, each time I was told they would explain the full position to technical support and get back to me. When they didn't get back I phoned CS again to get told there was a note on my account saying to hard reset the phone. This happened about 15 times! Each time I explained at length how hard resetting wasn't the problem - the phone had a hardware fault. If I could have spoken to technical support it could have been sorted in one call, but oh no. I was once told that having a phone crash and lose all its data once a day was 'acceptable'. At the time I had the best tariff that you could get on any network price matched from back in the day when Orange were good. I flipped out one day and demanded retentions gave me a free upgrade, which they duly did. Unfortunately it was to the Nokia N70 so that got sent back. In the end I managed to get them to replace my phone but I was so fed up I upgraded to another phone. Now TMob have brought out these new tariffs I am going to jump ship. Orange used to be helpful and now are obstructive. Bye.
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Apr 3 2006, 22:53
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Enthusiast  Group: Posters Posts: 156 Joined: 28th August 2003 From: Reading [UK] Member No.: 14,076 Device(s): MPx200 WM2005 |
Hi people,
Please don't jump to TMobile too quicky, I did that and had no service at home or in my local hostelry, at work there was a low signal, took it back to the shop and they asked my postcode, "EXCELLENT RECEPTION" they said, well, all I can say is I was without a phone for three days. [after unlocking my phone I had creep back to Orange] -------------------- I'm not a silver surfer, I'm a shiny pink one !
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Apr 3 2006, 22:57
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iSpork Group: MoDaCo Plus Posts: 537 Joined: 15th February 2005 From: Staffs Member No.: 110,894 Device(s): SE K800, MDA Pro |
Well by taking a new contract, we still have our 14 day money back protection, which will guard us against no reception.
Orange isn't great around my home area anyway, so anything extra is a bonus! -------------------- |
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Apr 4 2006, 04:09
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Hardcore Group: Posters Posts: 1,369 Joined: 10th May 2004 Member No.: 42,906 Device(s): E200 2xC500 SP5m Vario |
lol knew this would happen. everyday brings bad news to orange
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Apr 4 2006, 08:19
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Apr 4 2006, 09:56
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iSpork Group: MoDaCo Plus Posts: 537 Joined: 15th February 2005 From: Staffs Member No.: 110,894 Device(s): SE K800, MDA Pro |
scottusspez, welcome to mobiholics
Unfortunately, thats the way things go with Orange's promotional tariffs - I too started with Orange PM (previously a PAYG Cust since '98) as a direct customer. I took the 120 minutes and 250 text tariff, not knowing exactly how much I'd use. Thing was, I was using 500 texts a month without realising it, and hardly any minutes - ?45+ bills every month.. so when I called to change to the next tariff up.. they said no! I was gutted. Thats the thing about Flext on Tmob - they're not promotional tariffs - so you can change them up anytime and down after 6 months - talk about flexibility
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Apr 4 2006, 10:55
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 Addict Group: MoDaCo Plus Posts: 987 Joined: 20th March 2004 From: Gloucestershire, UK Member No.: 37,012 Device(s): MDA Vario II |
As I've suggested before within these pages, I reckon the MD's granddaughter invented this particular range of price plans......
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Apr 5 2006, 09:07
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