Orange has pissed me off for the last time (I hope).
I hate Orange. They're fucking evil and this will be the last time I have to deal with them or give them money. The first year of my contract was fine. Then my phone broke 1 week after my contract was renewed and it would have cost more to fix it than to buy a new one. So I did. And it sucked. Then I started traveling to the continent for work and my phone bill tripled in roaming charges. And Orange was laughing all the way to the bank the whole time, because I was paying £40 for about 30 minutes of airtime and about the same number of SMS messages. Fuck Orange. I have now switched to a pay-as-you-go phone on T-Mobile. I'm in the process of moving my phone number over so there should be no disruption on my calls and contacts.
I'm also in the process for shopping for a new broadband and phone provider, as well as looking into 0% balance transfers for the credit card. I read a very interesting article recently on how businesses make money on the laziness and inertia of people. We can save £240 a year by switching to a package deal on Virgin media and probably just as much with a balance transfer for the visa.
All things you should all be looking into :)
Changed to a cheaper phone contract (same provider, though) only yesterday – laziness is nice, but I can think of better things to do with the money.
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My contract was costing me 40 pounds a month, for probably the equivalent of 10 pounds of actual usage, with crap coverage and even worse customer service on top of that. Joy.
(http://livejournal.com/users/talisker)
Oh, my old one was fine (about 23 euros/month), but this one's better.
Luckily, phone companies over here are falling over themselves to scrounge up more customers – hence lowering their prices all the time.
I don't actually use my mobile phone that much – so now I have a contract where I pay 5 euros/month, +5 c/minute +20 c/SMS (only downer).
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