Guest scoobytwo Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 I'm about to "upgrade" my phone and get a Hero on orange. Currently im on panther 45 (£40p/m) 1200 minutes, Ulimited txts and browsing. tbh i only got that level of contract to get my past 3 phones for nothing. Now i really need to reduce my monthly payments but still keep the cost of the phone down. I only really need 200min, 300 txt and internet. I also only want a 12 or 18 month contract. I realise 12month contracts are now alot more expensive. I am staying with orange as their reception is the best here in the centre of glasgow. T-mob is the worst. Ive been with orange for around 8 years. looking online i see the best deals are; Dolphin 35: 18 months £30 + £5 internet, 600min, unlimited txt and £97.50 for the phone. Dolphin 30: 18 months £25 = £5 internet, 400min, unlimited txt and £146.50 for the phone. :D Racoon 30: 18months £25 + £5 internet, 400min, 300txt and £146.50 for the phone. so people, whats my chances of getting a lower contract and the phone for nothing/alot cheaper than on their site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mysterious Stranger Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 New connections get a better deal - churn out then back in? Mobiles.co.uk are doing an unlocked hero on dophin 35 for free with 8(or possibly just 6 now) months 1/2 price line rental and a headset if you use the modaco code for new customers. Got one a few weeks ago. Customer service is a little lacking but all sorted in the end. M.S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kam187 Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 New connections get a better deal - churn out then back in? Mobiles.co.uk are doing an unlocked hero on dophin 35 for free with 8(or possibly just 6 now) months 1/2 price line rental and a headset if you use the modaco code for new customers. Got one a few weeks ago. Customer service is a little lacking but all sorted in the end. M.S Are you getting 3G in many places on your Hero with orange? I noticed on mine that it hardly ever went to 3G... even in london :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scoobytwo Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 New connections get a better deal - churn out then back in? Doing that means i'd need to wait till november. Also do orange not give you better discounts for long term users? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Junoman Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 Orange Folks, You can't beat my deal, which is the best ever deal from Oraange.....!! :D :angry: ;) Racoon 10: SIM Only contract £8.75 - 225min, 100 txt J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest l3v5y Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 Orange Folks, You can't beat my deal, which is the best ever deal from Oraange.....!! :angry: ;) ;) Racoon 10: SIM Only contract £8.75 - 225min, 100 txt J. That's great, unless you want a hero :D I'm currently in the same boat (though get a friends/family discount) and working out the cheapest way to get a hero with the shortest contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blackhorse Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 (edited) You can if you want the hero! :D I'm currently in the same boat (though get a friends/family discount) and working out the cheapest way to get a hero with the shortest contract. If you have access to friends and family discount the best option by far in my oppinion, would be order from orange.co.uk 12 month contract Dolphin 45, 900 mins, 700 texts £29.36 per month (includes discounts) Phone is free of charge Edited August 18, 2009 by blackhorse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Junoman Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 Ohoo follow up to my previous post It has unlimited off peak landlines calls too!!!! lol :angry: lol ;) lol ;) J That's great, unless you want a hero :D I'm currently in the same boat (though get a friends/family discount) and working out the cheapest way to get a hero with the shortest contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scoobytwo Posted August 19, 2009 Report Share Posted August 19, 2009 well unfortunatly i don't know any orange employees. Unless someone wants to adopt me? :D see how orange shows some 25% to 10% discount for renewing on their website? whats the deal with this, can you get a handset as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mysterious Stranger Posted August 19, 2009 Report Share Posted August 19, 2009 Are you getting 3G in many places on your Hero with orange? I noticed on mine that it hardly ever went to 3G... even in london :D Using it on Three with the £5/month data. Got a TG01 on orange with no issues dahn in lahndahn at wemberley over the weekend...Asked about outages? Give orange the postcode and they'll check. M.S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mysterious Stranger Posted August 19, 2009 Report Share Posted August 19, 2009 well unfortunatly i don't know any orange employees. Unless someone wants to adopt me? :D see how orange shows some 25% to 10% discount for renewing on their website? whats the deal with this, can you get a handset as well? Yeah did that when I got the TG01. You can upgrade 'early' as well. Maybe see what other phones you could get and sel on fleabay to buy a Hero? M.S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest themadczech Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Sorry, but I left Orange after 9 years, as none of their plans are suitable for always on device and heavy data usage... WHY? Cos' Unlimited is FAR FROM unlimited. Orange gives you only 500MB/month (fair usage rules in the small print)! Where as T-Mobile 3GB... Orange would not extend my previous (discounted) contract £25 (-£10)/month for 500mins. They wanted extra £35 for phone and £25/month... +£5 internet AND 24 month contract. Spoke to disconnections twice and even with a real threat of leaving, when requesting PAC code, they would not and could not give me a good enough deal. Where as now with T-Mobile - Free phone, £40/month for 18 months FLEXT 40. For that I get £225 credit towards services such as: Text, calls UK, calls int, roaming, sms, mms, voicemail... internet is free (with 3GB fair usage). Yes the network is not as good, but I have decided to take the plunge and go with them. Might not be what you wanted to hear, but that's my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blackhorse Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 How are T-mobile doing nowa days? I know they are struggling financially and were in talks with 3 with a merger, is this still going on in the background? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest themadczech Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 How are T-mobile doing nowa days? I know they are struggling financially and were in talks with 3 with a merger, is this still going on in the background? Let's see, but to an average user it can be only an advantage to be gobbled up by a larger network. I expect that current contracts would be honoured and as a user you'd benefit from better signal :D win-win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DarrenT Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 My Hero only arrive from Orange yesterday after 3 years of the W810i but i thought id post the contract they gave me here. A long deal doesnt bother me as i dont mind having the same phone for an extended period but i didnt want to pay more than £25 a month for the contract as i only do maybe 200 minutes and 200 texts a month and just wanted the internet option really. In the end i managed to get the Hero for £48.50, 600 minutes, 550 texts, unlimited landline calls (which i use a lot of) and the 500mb web bundle for £25 a month. over the course of the 2 year contract it works out to about £27 a month which i was very pleased with. This was on the phone direct because the upgrade options were worse than the new customer ones despite the blurb saying "get the same deals as new customers". this ended up being better than the new customer deal as i got 50 extra texts a month as well as saving £50 on the phone. As you may have guessed im not on the phone all the time so 500mb will be enough for me. I know the contract is longer than you wanted but i thought it only fair to share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest olumite Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 My Hero only arrive from Orange yesterday after 3 years of the W810i but i thought id post the contract they gave me here. A long deal doesnt bother me as i dont mind having the same phone for an extended period but i didnt want to pay more than £25 a month for the contract as i only do maybe 200 minutes and 200 texts a month and just wanted the internet option really. In the end i managed to get the Hero for £48.50, 600 minutes, 550 texts, unlimited landline calls (which i use a lot of) and the 500mb web bundle for £25 a month. over the course of the 2 year contract it works out to about £27 a month which i was very pleased with. This was on the phone direct because the upgrade options were worse than the new customer ones despite the blurb saying "get the same deals as new customers". this ended up being better than the new customer deal as i got 50 extra texts a month as well as saving £50 on the phone. As you may have guessed im not on the phone all the time so 500mb will be enough for me. I know the contract is longer than you wanted but i thought it only fair to share. hi, what do you mean when you say you got the phone direct? did you cancel your existing account and then start a fresh one? please advise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DarrenT Posted August 23, 2009 Report Share Posted August 23, 2009 hi, what do you mean when you say you got the phone direct? did you cancel your existing account and then start a fresh one? please advise. I phoned the upgrade service because the web deals for new customers were better than the upgrade deals that you could get online. When i spoke to the salesperson they said that they couldnt match the offer but they could give me the same contract but at £30 a month with the phone for £50 (£50 less than the upgrade deal online). Since an extra £5 a month over 2 years is £120 and i was only getting a £50 saving on the phone i told them to cancel my account because it was going to cost me £70 and that i would just sort out a new one when this one ended. Then i asked how to get my number transfered to a new orange contract and was told that it wasnt possible because the transfers only work form one network to another. Within 2 minutes the same salesperson called back and was offering the deal i got which meant i dont have to get a new contract and that i could get the phone immediately even if i cant use the data part of it until the 10th september. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest olumite Posted August 23, 2009 Report Share Posted August 23, 2009 I phoned the upgrade service because the web deals for new customers were better than the upgrade deals that you could get online. When i spoke to the salesperson they said that they couldnt match the offer but they could give me the same contract but at £30 a month with the phone for £50 (£50 less than the upgrade deal online). Since an extra £5 a month over 2 years is £120 and i was only getting a £50 saving on the phone i told them to cancel my account because it was going to cost me £70 and that i would just sort out a new one when this one ended. Then i asked how to get my number transfered to a new orange contract and was told that it wasnt possible because the transfers only work form one network to another. Within 2 minutes the same salesperson called back and was offering the deal i got which meant i dont have to get a new contract and that i could get the phone immediately even if i cant use the data part of it until the 10th september. Thank you for elaborating. Why do you have to wait until 10th september for your data package to be activated? Not using it with this phone will be difficult, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DarrenT Posted August 24, 2009 Report Share Posted August 24, 2009 Thank you for elaborating. Why do you have to wait until 10th september for your data package to be activated? Not using it with this phone will be difficult, right? I think because my old contract wasnt supposed to end until September 30th, so while they would end the phone out the new contract couldnt start until Sep 10th. Its no major issue, i spend the majority of my time at work in front of a computer or at home with wifi. Since i have never had a data connection before i just need to hold out for a couple of weeks. Its a great phone though, now i need to work out rooting and all the other stuff people talk about on here :D . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Helical Posted August 24, 2009 Report Share Posted August 24, 2009 (edited) Hi, Got the Hero on Orange. 18 Month Contract - £25 month - 600 minutes, Unlimited Texts, Unlimited Internet (Will have to watch this, but I said I wanted unlimited internet and the guy said yes, and I did check with him that there were no caps etc etc). Phone was free. Edited August 24, 2009 by Helical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest l3v5y Posted August 24, 2009 Report Share Posted August 24, 2009 Hi, Got the Hero on Orange. 18 Month Contract - £25 month - 600 minutes, Unlimited Texts, Unlimited Internet (Will have to watch this, but I said I wanted unlimited internet and the guy said yes, and I did check with him that there were no caps etc etc). Phone was free. Was that direct from Orange? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Helical Posted August 24, 2009 Report Share Posted August 24, 2009 Was that direct from Orange? Yes, went through to the thinking of leaving orange one. Said I was thinking of leaving because I wanted an Iphone (i didnt) they said isnt there any other phone you would consider etc etc. Free internet I just said I would need it and o2 offer it with the Iphone. Didnt really have to try to be honest, though I have been with orange for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scoobytwo Posted August 25, 2009 Report Share Posted August 25, 2009 Hi, Got the Hero on Orange. 18 Month Contract - £25 month - 600 minutes, Unlimited Texts, Unlimited Internet (Will have to watch this, but I said I wanted unlimited internet and the guy said yes, and I did check with him that there were no caps etc etc). Phone was free. Now thats the deal i want. What "animal" is the contract? I'm hoping the fact that i've been with them for so long helps. Bad thing is im trying to upgrade in the 3month period before my contract runs out so cant say i'm instantly walking away. Mind you if i don't get what i want i won't be renewing straight away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Helical Posted August 26, 2009 Report Share Posted August 26, 2009 Now thats the deal i want. What "animal" is the contract? I'm hoping the fact that i've been with them for so long helps. Bad thing is im trying to upgrade in the 3month period before my contract runs out so cant say i'm instantly walking away. Mind you if i don't get what i want i won't be renewing straight away. I think its a discounted dolphin one, with loyalty bonuses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scoobytwo Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 So a wee bump just incase anyone has anything to add to the thread before i call orange this afternoon. The contract i'm most interesting in is Dolphin 30 (18 month contract £25 + £5 internet, 400min, unlimited txt and £97.50 for the phone). All off their website. First priority is the get the phone for free. Anyone fancy my chances? Could be hard as today is the first day of my 3 months to go before the end of my contract. So i can say i'll leave to go elsewhere but not for 3 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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