Orange Mobile Internet - Pay Monthly Accounts - Daily Capped Charge & Daily Bundle

Altarf

I couldn't see this posted anywhere and thought that it may be of interest to someone else.

Orange have introduced a price cap for mobile internet (GPRS) access on their "pay monthly" contract accounts of £1.50 per day (midnight to midnight) for a "fair usage" of up to 25MB per day.

However orange have been sneaky and existing customers need to either log into their accounts and select this as a bundle (it is shown as free) or phone customer services and request it. Otherwise you keep on paying the same uncapped rates.

They have also extended the £1 per day bundle of unlimited access which was available to PAYG customers to "pay monthly" contract accounts again subject to "fair usage" of up to 25MB per day.

They have also introduced some very uncompetitive bundles for monthly amounts of data.

This info is in the price tariff on their website, but not on the webpage about Orange World and mobile internet.

espresso

Altarf wrote: »

I couldn't see this posted anywhere and thought that it may be of interest to someone else.

Orange have introduced a price cap for mobile internet (GPRS) access on their "pay monthly" contract accounts of £1.50 per day (midnight to midnight) for a "fair usage" of up to 25MB per day.

However orange have been sneaky and existing customers need to either log into their accounts and select this as a bundle (it is shown as free) or phone customer services and request it. Otherwise you keep on paying the same uncapped rates.

They have also extended the £1 per day bundle of unlimited access which was available to PAYG customers to "pay monthly" contract accounts again subject to "fair usage" of up to 25MB per day.

They have also introduced some very uncompetitive bundles for monthly amounts of data.

This info is in the price tariff on their website, but not on the webpage about Orange World and mobile internet.

Thanks, I have not found this information on their website yet, can you post a link please?

Altarf

espresso wrote: »

Thanks, I have not found this information on their website yet, can you post a link please?

http://www1.orange.co.uk/service_plans/paymonthly/services_price_guides.html

Page 20 & 21 of the Pay Monthly Price Guide

It is also sort of advertised in the latest Orange magazine available from their stores, but the details (apart from the price) is included in the T&Cs in the back of the magazine,

espresso

Altarf wrote: »

http://www1.orange.co.uk/service_plans/paymonthly/services_price_guides.html

Page 20 & 21 of the Pay Monthly Price Guide

It is also sort of advertised in the latest Orange magazine available from their stores, but the details (apart from the price) is included in the T&Cs in the back of the magazine,

Thanks I am on an OVP plan and could see no mention of the capped GPRS access, so it may not apply to all plans.

:mad:

Altarf

espresso wrote: »

Thanks I am on an OVP plan and could see no mention of the capped GPRS access, so it may not apply to all plans.

Some of the phones I have are OVP and it believe it does as the data charges on OVP have always been the Orange tariff charges and not the Virgin tariff charges.

Anyway you will see if they apply and if you are able to choose it if you log into your account online.

Doublespresso

Altarf wrote: »

Orange have introduced a price cap for mobile internet (GPRS) access on their "pay monthly" contract accounts of £1.50 per day (midnight to midnight) for a "fair usage" of up to 25MB per day.

[snip]

They have also extended the £1 per day bundle of unlimited access which was available to PAYG customers to "pay monthly" contract accounts again subject to "fair usage" of up to 25MB per day.

Sorry I'm I'm a bit confused.. which is the £1.50 cap referred to in the 1st paragraph and which is the £1 referred to in the 2nd paragraph?

Altarf

Doublespresso wrote: »

Sorry I'm I'm a bit confused.. which is the £1.50 cap referred to in the 1st paragraph and which is the £1 referred to in the 2nd paragraph?

Daily cap - never spend more than £1.50 per day when browsing activation is free (and automatic for new customers)

If you sign up to this for free (if an existing customer) then you don't pay more than £1.50 per day unless you download more than 25MB.

Daily Bundle - £1 Orange World and mobile internet access for one day. Valid until 23:5:5 on day of purchase

This you buy on an ad-hoc basis by contacting customer services or from the WAP site on Orange World, and a days browsing (within 25MB) costs £1.

Doublespresso

Thanks for the explanation..
sorry for being thick here.... but why would anyone want to pay £1.50 a day if they can get the same amount of data (up to 25MB) for £1?? OK, there is the small inconvenience of buying this every day but I don't think it's such a big deal... (if anything it's an advantage as you don't pay on days you don't use it..)
Unless I've missed something?

Altarf

Because you don't pay anything to subscribe to the Daily Cap option, it is free. I agree that it is badly described in the tariff, but if you log into your Orange account online, you will see it listed there as free option. So if you choose this option and download 10 pence worth of data you pay 10 pence, and if you download 10MB you pay £1.50. If you never download anything you pay nothing.

The two bundles are not mutually exclusive. So there is nothing to stop you subscribing to the free Daily Cap bundle, and in fact it is being applied to all new Orange customers, it is only existing customers that Orange are trying to rip off (Orange, why would anybody not want a capped data tariff for free?). Then if you knew it was a day that you were going to download a lot, you could buy a £1 Daily Bundle and save 50p.

Doublespresso

I called Orange today and they couldn't find this tariff.. can anyone confirm if indeed Orange changed their tariffs again?

diamonds

free on my account when i log in