Orange are offering me free broadband.

Old_Gold

I have taken an ordinary 12 month contract, Canary 200, just over a month ago. I received a phone call the other day offering me free broadband as I was an orange customer.
Anybody have any thoughts on the pros and cons on this deal. I know that it is only 2 megs but I think for a fiver a month you can get unlimited.

MoneySavingSpender

Call orange via 150 and confirm it was orange, sounds odd them calling you, normally free broadband is for 18month £30+/month mobile customers.
However you maybe considered a valuable customer.

feival

No - I got a call from them too - they want you to upgrade to a new 18 month contract first!

hurrah

http://freebb.orange.co.uk/offerinfo/

Old_Gold

When they offered me deal I questioned the 12/18 month and they said I was still entitled to it on the 12 month deal. Now I suppose they could have been telling porkies.:eek:

Darren21

You are all wrong people, last week I signed up to orange on a 12 month contract through CPW, cashback deal, phoned orange and am up and running with free broadband and no extension to my contract. Got my first invoice - £0.00.

Basically they don't want to advertise it but orange will give you free broadband on a 12 month contract which doesn't even have to be bough directly through them. If they advertise this they would lose out on all the money that all the mugs taking out 18 month contracts and going directly through them are earning them!!!!

Rebekka_2

And orange are the hardest people to get a contract with, i have BB with them but cannot get a contract for a phone with them, yet can get one with every other provider, actually t-mobile and O2 will allow me two contracts, but orange not even one:mad:

rwgibson98

Back to basics, folks: there is no such thing as free broadband.

Either you're paying for it elsewhere, or you're going to have to pay for it elsewhere, or, it isn't actually very good. Or all three of those.

Remember this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6058154.stm

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reehsetin

every broadband provider will go down at some point - bt will go down for us at least twice a year dont think thats a reason not to get them!
ill be getting orange broadband asap - and no not just because i work for them - id rather pay the £5 a month than go with BT for over £20 a month and get hit with £90 worth of excess downloads on an 'unlimited' package

rwgibson98

If by that you mean that no broadband provider guarantees a 100% availability of service, you'd be right. However, I think the reason that the incident I linked to made the news was because of the severity of the outage, the length of time it took to restore the service, and the attitude with which paying customers were treated.

Of all the ISPS to offer 'free' broadband, not one has emerged with any credit or respectability.

You might concede that 'free' might be 'good for nothing' (i.e. you can't complain when you lose your internet connection and your land line can't make or receive calls for a week). However I think most people expect a certain level of competance from their telecoms provider.