Orange London Tariff

Paso

Orange are offering an off-peak tariff of £16 per month for new customers within the M25. It's not available from Orange directly, only retail outlets within the M25 I've just moved to it from T Mobile.

500 mins x network off peak 7pm- 7am per month (no roll over minutes)

50 free texts per month

Free voicemail at all times, I dont think this is available on any other orange tariff.

0800 and 0808 numbers free at all times(I use 18866 peak times!)

I got a Nokia 6230 fo £17 on this tariff from https://www.fones4free.com There are other phones available too.

Not a bad deal I reckon........for Londoners!

rwgibson99

According to this:-

http://www.mobiletoday.co.uk/artman/publish/article_1019.shtml

the tariff is available to ALL customers, so long as they sign up in London.

Your fones4free link seems to have some keen prices on its site, with cheap handsets too.

EDIT (after double-take):
I've just re-read the Mobile Today article.

Although commissions were not known as Mobile went to press, rumours are circulating that they would hover around £150, markedly lower than Orange’s established Off-Peak 1,000, which costs the customer £25 a month and nets the dealer around £260.

Let's do the math on that: Customer pays Orange £25 a month for 12 months = £300. For that, they get a free handset, and loads of talk time. The dealer who sold the tariff gets £260 from Orange. So Orange's profit is:-
£300 - £260 - cost of the handset - cost of the calls.

Is it any wonder they don't look after their existing customers?