Do you know how much they are going up by DH?
I've been with Orange for years now, apart from certain areas of the country where dropped calls are likely the service has been excellent.
Could you manage until your contract is nearly up and get in touch with them to negotiate a new deal, my deal the competition can't get anywhere near, plus free broadband.
But you must speak to one of their call centre staff from the North East of England, always friendly and helpful and will sort something out to keep you, if you get through to anywhere else you'll be wasting your time, my opinion only.
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Not to worry - found the answer on MoneySavingExpert.com, contract will be cancelled first thing tomorrow. Farewell Orange! Hello £315 saved, and I can keep the phone for eBay purposes. :-)
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I want to cancel mine because I am being ripped off, the shop I got it from ripped me off and I will never ever ever ever give them a penny more of my business. The made the staff at Dixons were I once had a part time job seem like saints.
However Vodafone have not yet done anything which means I could cancel. At least when my 9 months is up I can get the contract down each month.
When my business contract runs out at the end of the year I am also going to go back to Pay as you go on that. I am spending about £60 a month on my phones at the moment and its just got silly.
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I get 300 texts and 300 minutes (any time and any network) PAYG on Virgin Mobile for my step-son.
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That will do for my business my main problem is a three voicemail is essential. In the past on my business phone I was spending upto £5 a day just on listening to voice mails :(. I need to check what companies do free voice mail (it used to be only 3 when I signed up on my business contract, its only £15 a month but it all adds up).
My idea is just to withheld my personal phone and call all my customers on that.
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Of the 300 minutes the voicemail will be included. For a bit more you get more features. That price is for having Virgin Media for TV and Internet. But I have for over ten years and cannot fault either. Internet is always at the speed you pay for and is up to 50Mbit/s.
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I have been with them for ever. At last renewal I got the hump and dug in. Now get 1000 txts. 1100 minutes. 4gb of surfing or whatever it's called. When you call them get put straight through to retentions. Be polite. Don't accept first offer. For the above which include 3 No. nokia 6500 slides (free) I pay £54. ?? + v.a.t. Mail me off site if you need more help.
Best.MD
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>>Of the 300 minutes the voicemail will be included>>
I've been on Virgin Mobile PAYG since August 2000 - voicemail has always been free.
Edited by rtj70 on 27/07/2009 at 12:14
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Virgin PAYG mailed me only three days ago to say the prices are changing from 28th September.
I currently pay £10 a month for 300 texts and 300 minutes. After that, the new prices below kick in.
Whilst no mention of now charging for voicemail (I assume it's still free therefore), the cost of ten minute call from Virgin to Virgin is increasing from £1 to £2, which seems something of a hike. A fifteen minute call moves from £1.25 to £3, and so forth.
(It's moving from 15p per minute for the first five minutes and then 5p per minute thereafter, to a flat 20p per minute.)
Texts remain at 5p a go.
With that in mind I suppose I'd better start trawling the providers as well to see if that's a good deal or not in today's PAYG market.
Can anybody at first glance say "crikey, that's rubbish, try provider xyz"?
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..It's moving from 15p per minute for the first five minutes and then 5p per minute thereafter, to a flat 20p per minute.)...
Last time I tinkered with my Virgin PAYG, there was an option to go back to 15p a minute for the first five and 5p a minute thereafter, although you couldn't combine that with any bundles.
Works OK for me and I think it's the same tariff Virgin started with 10-odd years ago.
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Cheapest PAYG provider, to the best of my knowledge, is ASDA. See:
www.asda-mobile.com/
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Who, apart from some busy fingered teenager, needs 300 texts a month. Do any of you business men use texting at all, and, if you do, how many a month? Unlimited minutes appeal to me, free taxts are junk!
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>>Do any ofyou business men use texting at all and if you do how many a month? Unlimited minutes appeal to me free taxts are junk!
I use texts at work, so do my of my colleagues. Along with im, email, vm, and voice.
I prbly dnt use 300 txts mnth, bt thts only 10 dy, so its pssbl.
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I use texts at work, so do my of my colleagues. Along with im, email, vm, and voice.
I prbly dnt use 300 txts mnth, bt thts only 10 dy, so its pssbl.
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you are typing on a keyboard , not texting ,
how I hate those shortened words.
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cld hv bin snt by my fone?
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>> you are typing on a keyboard not texting
Those of us with the special Gold membership of the forum can post by txt.
; - )
Edited by drbe on 27/07/2009 at 16:56
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Texts can be useful in a work context; you would be astonished. Depends, probably, on the age of the people you are dealing with.
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I use tex all the time, not quite sure I send 300 a month anymore. At one time I was sending around 1000 a month but then there was a girl involved :).
I probably send 5 a day on average which I think is just very average. I am probably on my mobile around 40-60 minutes a day making calls and on it another hour or so on the web.
I rarely use text messages for business. I do use my personal phone to check the messages people have left for me on the 0161 number. The wonders of VIOP. I am also going to config my phone to recieve my 0161 onto my mobile and it won't cost me a penny.
Edited by Rattle on 27/07/2009 at 18:33
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Both step-sons used to use a lot of texts until I pointed out a quick call can be cheaper! One is on Orange contract the other I pay for the PAYG deal for Virgin Media - 300 min/text for £10 takes some beating! And texts were only 11p from Europe.
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"Cheapest PAYG provider, to the best of my knowledge, is ASDA"
Thanks for the tip. They do look reasonable, yes - spreadsheet frenzy time.
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