Orange Sim on Virgin Tarrif

derrick

http://www.mobileshop.org/usertech/everyphone.htm[/url]



According to discussions, this service is no longer offered to private customers but is for business - I cannot find any reference to it on the Orange website therefore if anyone knows any different, please post here (may mean it is another service that will either stop or be charged for in the future). I managed to set it up last night without a problem.

Kind regards

Mr B

Found this from your first link, first paragraph?



Orange Everyphone
The Bad News
As part of what appears to be an ongoing campaign of removing services, increasing prices and annoying customers, Orange have announced that Everyphone is no longer available from 1 October 2003, except to corporate customers. They say that this is to increase reliability of the service, but if it is broken, why don't they fix it instead?

Mr_B_13

I read that as well  ::) - but based on discussions elsewhere on MSE I gave it a go ... and have it set up and working on my phone as I type, with calls to my old mobile coming through loud and clear on my new one.

Two paragraphs down from the above quote on http://www.mobileshop.org/usertech/everyphone.htm, it states:

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However, although there is no mention or Everyphone on the Orange web site, and the Everyphone setting page has vanished, you can still dial 330 (or 07973 100330) and set Everyphone - and it continues to work. A cynical view would be to say that they are hoping to defuse the storm of protest that closing EveryPhone would have caused, and at some point in the future, it will be switched off, months after it officially ended. But there is no sign of that happening yet..."

Probably won't last long (it is now over a year on from it being closed ???), but if it costs nothing, then I see no problem in using it?  I am not a corporate customer - if they wanted to stop people using it, they could easily have barred calls to the number for private users?  (dial 330 off an orange mobile, I think that it costs around 7.5p plus VAT) .

Kind regards

Mr B

DonnyDave

Whatever you do, don't forget your PIN for Everyphone!

I have and now I cannot access it. I have phoned Orange to get them to reset it and they say they can't because it's no longer available.

Mr_B_13

PIN is 4 digits therefore a few possibilities! However, as you set it, wouldn't you have set it with a number you were familiar with? Eg same as the pin for your bank card etc? Worth putting your tkinking cap on.

As an aside, I set up a divert on my mobile to my landline in 1998 and forgot all about it (cannot even remember why or under what conditions it should divert, as I had messages on my answerphone for years) - earlier this year I had a phone call from a lady at my old house (moved out 5 years ago!). Apparently, she had received a number of messages on her answerphone for me and eventually decided to phone me up to cancel my divert :-[.

Mr B

DonnyDave

PIN is 4 digits therefore a few possibilities! However, as you set it, wouldn't you have set it with a number you were familiar with? Eg same as the pin for your bank card etc? Worth putting your tkinking cap on.

It's four digits. Thanks for that. I wasn't sure weather it is 4 or 6.

As for what I've set it to, I've tried a whole manner of PINs. I thought I would have written it down.

scottyt421

I have a phone on this orange virgin tarriff for about 11 years and now I am sure orange have corrupted the sim. Whenever I receive or make calls around 33% of them are dropped and end using the 3 beeps that orange give at the end of their balance enquiry on PAYG. I quizzed them regarding this today and they advised they couldn't possibly comment - says it all really.
Going to port my number to another network and stuff them. They tried to rip me off for £180 last year when I had used the phone abroad. Only used texts and most came through at about £5 some came through at 90p - turned out after much holding, arguing that they should all have been 90p!