Guest benzo Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 Opened my orange phone bill today and noticed that I was charged £8.50 for 0.9Mb worth of GPRS usage on the Orange France network. A bit steep don't you think? On another note, does anyone know of any websites that will allow me to send SMSs to Vodafone Italy phones? Benzo.
Guest morpheus Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 what GPRS bundle do you have and what tariff do you have?
Guest Firaas Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 A bit steep don't you think? Not really, considering it's £8/mb in Britain - they need to profit and repay the provider whilst you're in France. As for SMS to italy, try this.
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 Think yourself lucky you didn't go to Hong Kong... £25.00 per MB! :shock: P
Guest Big Ron - No Longer a Mem Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 You mis-timed your trip! Althjough Orange wasn't too keen to puyblicise the fact, until December last year, cross-billing GPRS from Europe was so bloody complicated that Orange found it wasn't worth the bother - so it was free!
Guest Den Posted February 21, 2003 Report Posted February 21, 2003 If you join lycos, you get 5 free SMS messages a day and you can send MMS messages free too. (i think) I can never do if from work because of the security but give it a go.
Guest crmitchell Posted February 24, 2003 Report Posted February 24, 2003 Opened my orange phone bill today and noticed that I was charged £8.50 for 0.9Mb worth of GPRS usage on the Orange France network. A bit steep don't you think? On another note, does anyone know of any websites that will allow me to send SMSs to Vodafone Italy phones? Benzo. Check that you have the SPV package (£5 for 4 mb pm) and not the GPRS package. Orange don't know the difference. They charhged me both !
Guest steve_youles Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 I just got the same thing £17.44 for 2mB - called Orange, "Sharon" tells me its the foreign network charge (yeah right ORANGE France - same bloody company!) - this basically renders the SPV (and GPRS/G3 when it arrives) useless as it's simply too expensive. £17 a month to check your emails abroad on a micro screen, I'll use my laptop from now on and thank god I took out the no quibble return option with Carphone warehouse. Bye Bye SPV - bye bye Orange, gimme back my basic Nokia. I'm not paying through the nose to be a beta tester for Orange. The future's bright, but it's not Orange! Predicition - G3 is doomed to fail at this rate, these guys have no idea what service and customer focused products are!
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