Orange PAYG

McKneff

Got a text this morning from Orange.

costs are now

25p per minute per call

12p per text.

How can they justify such a percentage rise.

grumbler

Ask them?
Vote with your feet?

They don't have to justify anything in fact.

MSE News: Calls to mobile phones are set to become cheaper

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Jon_01

McKneff wrote: »

How can they justify such a percentage rise.

So they can pay for the merger with T mobile. . .

neil40

On their website,it shows the Raccoon tarriff as 12p per min calls/12p texts?.Maybe just switch to another package.

Neil

T_T_2

Wow, a rise from 10p per text well over ten years ago to 12p now, that's a horrific 2% per year!

In all seriousness, it isn't the end of the world is it? Like others have suggested you could switch to another package or provider, that is is the beauty of PAYG.

asbokid

T_T wrote: »

Wow, a rise from 10p per text well over ten years ago to 12p now, that's a horrific 2% per year!

You're astonishingly flippant for a newbie!

The general price rises to the Orange PAYG tariff are unacceptably large, at a time that the interconnect fees elsewhere in the industry are being slashed.

The inconvenience of porting a number for many people serves as a barrier to leaving a provider. The mean-spirited bean counters at Orange will have factored in that inertia when deciding upon their new call tariffs.

T_T_2

asbokid wrote: »

You're astonishingly flippant for a newbie!

The general price rises to the Orange PAYG tariff are unacceptably large, at a time that the interconnect fees elsewhere in the industry are being slashed.

The inconvenience of porting a number for many people serves as a barrier to leaving a provider. The mean-spirited bean counters at Orange will have factored in that inertia when deciding upon their new call tariffs.

Contrary to popular belief, my birth certificate features the date I was born rather than the date I joined this forum, so whilst I might have joined this forum yesterday, I wasn't born yesterday.

Again, there might be a point of interest here if users were locked into a 12/18/24 month contract but when we are talking about PAYG where the user only ever risks what they choose to top-up, you can hardly lose too much sleep when texts go from 10p to 12p in a space of 10 years or more.

coolesticeking

Move to GiffGaff

T_T_2

coolesticeking wrote: »

Move to GiffGaff

The three best words you will ever hear! Although I'm not quite sure if GiffGaff could be considered a proper word at this stage

Stuart_W

McKneff wrote: »

Got a text this morning from Orange.

costs are now

25p per minute per call

12p per text.

How can they justify such a percentage rise.

Am I right in thinking that these are the new prices that apply from 1st July 2011 - so not quite yet. No need to panic, plenty of time to move to another tariff.

Full price list - http://www1.orange.co.uk/service_plans/downloads/PAYG-PG-20110701.pdf

At the same time, they are increasing the number of free texts a £10 top-up attracts from 300 to 400 on Dolphin and Monkey.

This is a continuation of the current pattern of the main providers - where there is little interest in the under £10 per month PAYG customer.

Inclusive top-up rewards are time limited so encourage monthly topping up, whether it is for free texts, free data or free whatever else (none of which is of course anything like free).

At least Orange does actually offer it's own "no-frills" tariff, albeit not very competitive at 12p/min and 12p/text on Racoon.

If you don't like Orange's 25p/min and 12p/text from July, look at options such as FamilyMobile, TalkMobile Essentials, TescoLite, icardmobile, Nowmobile, Simfiniti, The Phone Co-op, Giffgaff, Lyca, Lebara. There are plenty of options.

coolesticeking

T_T wrote: »

The three best words you will ever hear! Although I'm not quite sure if GiffGaff could be considered a proper word at this stage

Yeah most people say to me 'Giff what'!