Bye Bye Orange (merged)

skimshandy

I left Orange for '3' last September. I've had a lot less hassle from '3' than I did with Orange. Plus the reception in my area is a lot better with '3' than it is with Orange. I personally wouldn't recommend Orange. I'd been with them for 4 years and I had taken far to little in the past to stay with them. As soon as I really demanded something in return for my custom, they didn't want to know!

stiffnuts69

all other ops its funny because I in the past recommended orange to friends family and business colleagues. They are now all moving also.

madfrenchgirl

OH is only stikcing with them because of his 5 yo tariff (everyday 50?)... He is getting p'd off at the itemised billing and the 18 months contract upgrade.

Recently he was offered a new phone for his loyalty of 5 years, while, strangely enough, they had been trying to make him change his contract to something less advantageous for him for the past 3 years.

Long story short: he got charged 150 pounds for the phone and had to phone them several times to get a bloody refund on it.

RichA

Aye, I'm off as well, as per my thread. The executives office phoned me up a couple of days ago and offered me 200 x-net minutes and some texts for £25 per month. I pointed out that 3 would do me 400 x-net minutes and some texts for £17 per month on their specials page - the guy said they wouldn't match 3 tarrifs, so I requested that they don't call me again.

How things have changed. My recent dealings with NTL have been a delight - Orange always used to be the best. Now, NTL wipe the floor with them. Never thought I'd see the day that I recommended NTL customer service over Orange orangutans...



--Rich

Tom_Saunders

I get 750 xnet minutes, 1000 text and 50 video minutes for £35. Plus I got a brand new N70.

I LOVE ORANGE>.

Lucymiss

I've been with Orange for quite a few years, can't discern, I have got 100 minutes, 50 extra landline minutes. 1000 test messages for life, FREE Orange insurance,1 magic number for £25 a month,still got 16 months on contract, so stuck whatever happens

Lucy

olly_2

Im thinking of leaving vodafone,but not sure where to go between orange/o2/3,i know most in this post do not like orange,but surely theres hundreds that also do like orange.Im after the n80,so orange was my choice as its only 50 quid,but even tho i prefer 02,they want 100 quid.Thought about 3,but not sure on coverage reliabilty,and the indian call centre,but i know they also have a scottish call centre,thats more helpfull.can you help me decide please??...

xycom1

olly wrote:

Im thinking of leaving vodafone,but not sure where to go between orange/o2/3...

Out of those three, Orange are the best of a bad lot...

impy78

I was shocked when I called Orange to say i wanted to buy out my contract, they didn't even attempt to retain my business, even tough I regularly spend over £100 a month with them....

moneysavingme_2

Im thinking of leaving vodafone,but not sure where to go between orange/o2/3

I'd stay with vodafone if i were you, no ques on CS lines and english people on the other end.

Orange currently have average waiting time of 12 - 20 minutes and untrained non fluent foreign people on the other end.

3 is supposed to be pretty poor for signal and o2 have mixed reviews.