MSE News: Orange to raise monthly mobile costs

jasonwatkins

daleski75 wrote: »

Not advocating that at all

Well you are ..

daleski75 wrote: »

If a £2 increase is going to break your budget or cripple your finances then get a pay and go cheap !!! mobile phone and quit complaining

"If a £2 increase is going to break your budget or cripple your finances" - the only people affected by the increase are people under contract.

"get a pay and go cheap mobile phone and quit complaining" - either you're telling people to get a cheap PAYG phone on top of their contract and "quit complaining" or you're telling people to get a cheap PAYG phone instead of their contract and "quit complaining".

daleski75

jasonwatkins wrote: »

Well you are ..



"If a £2 increase is going to break your budget or cripple your finances" - the only people affected by the increase are people under contract.

"get a pay and go cheap mobile phone and quit complaining" - either you're telling people to get a cheap PAYG phone on top of their contract and "quit complaining" or you're telling people to get a cheap PAYG phone instead of their contract and "quit complaining".

Bad grammar on my part I never intended to state that anyone should go through and pay a small fortune to cancel their contract to get a cheap and go one it was meant to mean if an increase like that is too much then consider a pay and go contract AFTER the Orange contract has ended or if they let you cancel early.

Hope that explains it better would never give advice out to spend far more to pay it off to get pay and go as that makes no sense.

robbies_gal

daleski75 wrote: »

Speak nicely to a CS from Orange and maybe like others you could get them to give you a discount to offset the increase?

to tim can u maybe downgrade to 30 a month so that will offset the increase?

it will mean less minutes but thats all they lower

daleski75

Tim3822 wrote: »

They looked at my tariff whilst I was on the phone and I use EVERYTHING lol, all my minutes, all my data. He said there was nothing he could reduce. Said there was no way for me to offset the increase.

What about wifi hotspots and other things like that to offset the data usage?

Also what does £35 give you minutes, text and data allowance wise?

thischris1991

Guys_Dad wrote: »

Really helpful post - potentially. Now, any chance of getting OFCOM to put that officially in writing? If not, then, regrettably, although I do not doubt your word, it's pretty worthless as a weapon against Orange.

http://ask.ofcom.org.uk/help/services-and-billing/conchange
I believe that is formal writing enough although not relating to orange.

Tim3822

daleski75 wrote: »

What about wifi hotspots and other things like that to offset the data usage?

Also what does £35 give you minutes, text and data allowance wise?

I get 500 minutes, "unlimited" text and "unlimited" internet which in reality is only 500mb.

There are no wifi hotspots in my area, I already checked .

daleski75

Tim3822 wrote: »

I get 500 minutes, "unlimited" text and "unlimited" internet which in reality is only 500mb.

There are no wifi hotspots in my area, I already checked .

Like gabbyevs said is there anything you could potentially lower in the meantime to make it easier on your wallet or would you end up spending more on charges going over the minutes etc?

robbies_gal

tim can u not survive then on the 30 a month plan it does drop to 300 minutes but the data and and texts dont change

Tim3822

Well I suppose so, but this is the only way I can call family and friends. I have no wifi and the internet doesn't always work so I use all my data allowance too, so I don't know what I could cut.

daleski75

Tim3822 wrote: »

Well I suppose so, but this is the only way I can call family and friends. I have no wifi and the internet doesn't always work so I use all my data allowance too, so I don't know what I could cut.

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