I signed up for an orange.net email address years ago, probably 4 or 5 years ago I'd say when they were pushing the "free" service to anyone who'd listen. Certainly being an orange customer was not a prerequisite.
It was great because they did free text alerts when you got an email, anyway at the time I was with orange but have wandered around lots of networks and still got the alerts. 2 years ago I went back on orange, eventually cancelled the alerts because getting texts about spam isn't very helpful. Not sure if that service is still active.
Anyway, in the meantime I do recall seeing an email about terms changing and the fact that you had to have an orange number to keep the service but I assumed that either a) wouldn't mean me because I signed up before this term was introduced or b) they'd give you a bit of warning at which point I could go and buy a pay as you go sim and all would be fine.
So, I port my number off to o2 on wednesday and the very moment my line moves..
Orange DELETE my email account that i've had for aaaaages.. the bank, egg, paypal, ebay, ocuk and various other forums, all my friends, job agencies, my cv, the LOT.. all have that address and I think its way out of order behaving like this.. its not as if the service was especially robust anyway.
But anyway, just a bit of a warning for anyone else using orange.net basically.
And talk about "close the door on the way out" customer services.. I left for a better deal but I ain't EVER going back to orange!
It was great because they did free text alerts when you got an email, anyway at the time I was with orange but have wandered around lots of networks and still got the alerts. 2 years ago I went back on orange, eventually cancelled the alerts because getting texts about spam isn't very helpful. Not sure if that service is still active.
Anyway, in the meantime I do recall seeing an email about terms changing and the fact that you had to have an orange number to keep the service but I assumed that either a) wouldn't mean me because I signed up before this term was introduced or b) they'd give you a bit of warning at which point I could go and buy a pay as you go sim and all would be fine.
So, I port my number off to o2 on wednesday and the very moment my line moves..
Orange DELETE my email account that i've had for aaaaages.. the bank, egg, paypal, ebay, ocuk and various other forums, all my friends, job agencies, my cv, the LOT.. all have that address and I think its way out of order behaving like this.. its not as if the service was especially robust anyway.
But anyway, just a bit of a warning for anyone else using orange.net basically.
And talk about "close the door on the way out" customer services.. I left for a better deal but I ain't EVER going back to orange!
