Guest Wozbacca Posted July 25, 2006 Report Posted July 25, 2006 (edited) Rumours abound... MoDaCo member Wozbacca called Orange today to ask about the M3100, trying the CS staff lottery and see if anyone knew anything. She said that its still in testing, and should be out before the end of the month. However, that's not all... i'll let Wozbacca pick up the story... I also asked about the data bundles and i mentioned that Edited July 26, 2006 by Wozbacca
Guest beersoft Posted July 25, 2006 Report Posted July 25, 2006 so, unlimited data at long last (woo) but are they going to give itemised data billing?, proberbly not not that orange have any clue what any phone is doing on the network at any time (ask will, offer booze) Later Owen http://www.msmobilenews.com/page/1360/ (hoff exclusive)
Guest Wozbacca Posted July 25, 2006 Report Posted July 25, 2006 thought i should add, im an orange premier customer, so it might only be for the peeps paying hefty line rentals, dunno, worth asking tho
Guest magic_peanuts Posted July 25, 2006 Report Posted July 25, 2006 Can't say much at this stage, but suffice to say, not many Orange customers will be leaving for T-Mobile for a while! More later...
Guest bugeyes Posted July 25, 2006 Report Posted July 25, 2006 is this the tarrif??? :- Orange High Speed Data Orange have developed a unique High Speed Data Plan that offers reduced data charges. You can send and receive information up to three times faster than standard circuit switched data rates. monthly charge
Guest oink1 Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 Well this is interesting... Worth a call to CS tomorrow i think :)
Guest danwatson1974 Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 is this the tarrif??? :- Orange High Speed Data Orange have developed a unique High Speed Data Plan that offers reduced data charges. You can send and receive information up to three times faster than standard circuit switched data rates. monthly charge
Guest chucky.egg Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 Can't say much at this stage, but suffice to say, not many Orange customers will be leaving for T-Mobile for a while! That's because most of us that wanted flat rate GPRS have already gone to T-Mobile. And after Orange saying (mis-quotes) "T-mobile are losing huge amounts of money", "It's not sustainable", "The infrastructure costs more to maintain than that"... they finally bite the bullet and match the price (well, almost, being Orange they can't bring themselves to do it quite as well as T)
Guest Will Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 just checked with orange (spoke to the data team) and.... (hey I was on hold for ages!) apart from orange world max@ 80plus quiddies for 1000megs.. they said they know nothing about it.) To be fair the CSR is going to investigate further and call me back today. if/when I get an update..... I'm not saying its wrong/right, but i'll wait and see!
Guest waroffice Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 This could be interesting....my contract runs out on 5th aug so i was considering going pay as you go till the vario II arives on T-mobiles door mat. but this may make me stay with orange. /me waits with bated breath
Guest JonnyO Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 I'm another who is waiting on more information on this. I was going to go to T-mobile when the Vario II was launched but if this is true it might convince me to stay with Orange (after being with Orange for over 10 years!).
Guest JonnyO Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 Can't say much at this stage, but suffice to say, not many Orange customers will be leaving for T-Mobile for a while! More later... Why the cryptic answer?!!!!
Guest jimbouk Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 I have been with Orange for about 12 years. I was thinking about going to TMob for the unlimited data - but heard their network coverage was poor. So was going to stay with Orange anyway - with an spv 3100 and O matching T's flext tariffs - and accepting the data charges would be slightly more (ie
Guest Dr Who Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 (edited) Hmmm, this will put the cat amongst the pigeons if its true. I hope it is true because I may be able to use retentions to get a FlexT price match and decent data tariff on both my mobiles. I would need modem use though! Edited July 26, 2006 by Dr Who
Guest hotphil Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 I have been with Orange for about 12 years. I was thinking about going to TMob for the unlimited data - but heard their network coverage was poor. It think that's a historical problem - I've certainly not had any more problems than I did with Orange. Shame they were so slow to look at a move like this - as chucky.egg says, most people who are interested in personal data use have already gone to T-Mobile. I might have stayed with Orange if this deal had been around...
Guest chucky.egg Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 I've found coverage to be slightly better, but the only way to know is to try it out and see what it's like in the places you go.
Guest spacerace Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 god I hope this is true, and LONG overdue.... exclusion of modem and MSN use is a pain, but still a lot better than nothing. They may offer modem use later for a slightly higher fee
Guest pisquee Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 This would make my 3G data card much more useful if they'd allow modem usage
Guest spacerace Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 This would make my 3G data card much more useful if they'd allow modem usage I think they're referring to using a mobile phone AS a modem on a PDA or laptop (tethering). If you put the SIM straight in a data card I'm not sure how they would view that ? I can't see how they can actually tell in either case, except for the presumbably much greater data throughput of a laptop using GPRS/3G
Guest chucky.egg Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 Nice Avatar spacerace, where did you get that from? :)
Guest Wozbacca Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 haha, patches o'hoolahan! genius... as for the tarrif...., i do think the messenger thing is very wierd... i did ask CS to confirm about this but it is true apparently... what whould happen if you installed agile messenger or something i dont know. how can the tell the difference between the traffic types, and why arent they more bothered about shoutcast internet/mp3 radio rather than text instant messaging!?
Guest spacerace Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 Nice Avatar spacerace, where did you get that from? :) Not sure if you're actually asking (?) but it's a screengrab from the film Dodgeball, which (sadly) brings me to tears of laughter...
Guest jayz1220 Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 (edited) Hey Everyone, I just called orange, and the CS rep put me through to the data team, who promptly said that there was no Edited July 26, 2006 by jayz1220
Guest spacerace Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 i do think the messenger thing is very wierd... i did ask CS to confirm about this but it is true apparently... what whould happen if you installed agile messenger or something i dont know. how can the tell the difference between the traffic types, and why arent they more bothered about shoutcast internet/mp3 radio rather than text instant messaging!? I agree, it's crazy. However it's also something T-Mobile stipulate as an exclusion so it's obviously something the networks have got worked up about. If they really wanted to they could tell by the traffic type, although with newer versions of IM auto negotiating firewalls by hopping onto Port 80 this would require increasingly greater levels of scrutiny. I would assume they are referring to any brand of instant messaging service, and the more cynical side of me feels it's really aimed at IM services that offer VOIP routing....
Guest hotphil Posted July 26, 2006 Report Posted July 26, 2006 It'll be because the networks are working on their own cross-network chargeable (!!!) IM system...
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