Orange now offering £8 p/m unlimited data bundle?

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The below is taken from another forum.

A new bolt on which is £8 per month which allows you unlimited GPRS / 3G data usage on your phone.... and its available now apparently!!

There are a few conditions...

- you must sign up to a 12 month contract of this bolt on (which works out to be £60 per year)
- you cant use your phone as a modem
- traffic from msn messenger is not included in this, which means you pay extra for the data used by IM

I thought that was a bit strange considering that IM traffic is a tiny amount compared to skype etc.


Just checking with Orange now regarding some more details on this. If this is true I may hold hold for the M3100 to be released on Orange Instead of jumping ship to T-Mobile.
 
Dolph said:
You also need to be on a Premier or Panther tariff to qualify for the bundle.
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I'll need to check out the cost of the Panther package. I just called CS and they couldn't find any info on it.

Edit: Just checked the minimum Panther tariff is £45 plus the £8 for data, taking the total to £53. :(

Oh well.
 
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GuruJockStrap said:
Goodbye Orange, hello T-Mobile FlexT and Web N Walk!
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Quoted for truth.


Im going to be going from an Orange 6680 to a Vario II when it gets released. Though ill see what i can get from orange while im there but i bet they wont be able to match it.
 
Exactly what I'm planning to do but with a 6630 at the moment.

I do like to access the Internet from my mobile device and with Vodafone, O2 and Orange this is pretty expensive.

Vodafone is out of the question (poor signal where I live), O2 is just flat out expensive and the £8 charge for unlimited use from Orange is great but that Panther tariff is too expensive for me (my contract is £30 per month).

All I need now is T-Mobile to pull their finger out and release the Vario II!
 
Pdog said:
- traffic from msn messenger is not included in this, which means you pay extra for the data used by IM
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Seems stupid given the tiny amount of dta used by IM.

I'm currently on a 3 month "try 3g" package which gives me 1000 megs a month for nothing for 3 months, but rest assured after 3 months is up I'll not be touching data with a bargepole as it's too expensive really for anything but emergencies.

Thankfully the Nokia N80 has WLAN connectivity, so there's usually an unsecured access point not too far away!
 
PeterNem said:
Seems stupid given the tiny amount of dta used by IM.
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but think of all the SMS traffic they would loose if every one left MSN signed in and just used that instead.
 
Shoei said:
but think of all the SMS traffic they would loose if every one left MSN signed in and just used that instead.
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Generally the people who have this option open to them will be on a decent tarrif and probably 1,000 texts a month free or something silly anyway.

I'd imagine most of the income from texting comes from 16 year olds texting their mates, who are unlikely to be on a priceplan which will allow the £8 data bolt on.

Until phones and the network become able to have an always on data connection without the phone battery dieing after a few hours or something this may be a problem, but at the moment just sitting on msn all day on your phone isnt really feasible.
 
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