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Orange Pay As You Go - Cheapest of all networks?
[]tter\/\/ard
22-05-2007
I'm just looking on the Orange website and see that they have a tariff for PAYG called speakeasy.

Calls are 15p per minute to any network no matter what time of day, texts are 10p and you get 300 free for topping up £10 a month.

O2's equal tariff of 300 texts has call charges of 25p for the first 3 minutes, and 40 per min cross network!
UMRO
22-05-2007
Originally Posted by []tter\/\/ard:
“I'm just looking on the Orange website and see that they have a tariff for PAYG called speakeasy.

Calls are 15p per minute to any network no matter what time of day, texts are 10p and you get 300 free for topping up £10 a month.

O2's equal tariff of 300 texts has call charges of 25p for the first 3 minutes, and 40 per min cross network!”

does existing customers get the 15p anytime promotion also??
[]tter\/\/ard
22-05-2007
I think it's for new customers only but they are giving away free SIM cards at www.orange.co.uk so you could get a new one with a new number
RYPW
23-05-2007
Not really. T-Mobile is much better if you order a free SIM off their website. 12p a minute to anyone at anytime, 20% back on top ups every month and free unlimited evening and weekend texts if you top up by £10 or more a month.

http://www.t-mobilesimgiveaway.co.uk...=ON_QM_A_BuyAT
raymogy
23-05-2007
15p a minute is expensive, i have ornage and is only 10p a minute. and virgin is only 5 p a minute
RYPW
23-05-2007
Originally Posted by raymogy:
“15p a minute is expensive, i have ornage and is only 10p a minute. and virgin is only 5 p a minute”

That's same network calls though isn't it? The 15p on Orange and 12p on T-Mobile is to any network.
Hooloovoo
23-05-2007
Originally Posted by UMRO:
“does existing customers get the 15p anytime promotion also??”

Yes. Just dial 450 and follow the instructions for changing to the Speak Easy tariff. I did it the other day and it works fine.

One word of caution - make sure you top up AFTER you've changed your tariff. When you change, you'll lose any bonus-topup entitlement for whatever you've put on so far this month. So change the tariff in the evening, and the next morning you'll get an SMS saying your bonus-topup has been setup and giving you the date that you need to top-up by to get the bonus. Only top-up after you get that SMS.

I think 15p per minute anytime anynetwork is pretty good. Also with the £1 per day unlimited GPRS, I think Orange are the best all-round provider for PAYG. T-Mobile may be slightly cheaper but Orange have better coverage so the few pence extra is worth it.

Having said that - I'll be changing from Orange PAYG to a T-Mobile contract soon because I want to get an HTC TyTN and T-Mobile are easily the cheapest. Orange charge a fortune for the M3100 which is essentially the same phone as the Vario II.
DXRulz
23-05-2007
Well i have used both Orange & T-Mobile and although their crossnet charges are very cheap, that didnt help me at all because most of the people i know are on O2 and it was all adding up.
[]tter\/\/ard
23-05-2007
Originally Posted by DXRulz:
“Well i have used both Orange & T-Mobile and although their crossnet charges are very cheap, that didnt help me at all because most of the people i know are on O2 and it was all adding up.”

But... with O2 you pay 25p a minute to other O2 mobiles.

With Orange, you pay 15p a minute to O2 mobiles...
DXRulz
23-05-2007
Yes but im not keen on Orange
on the air
23-05-2007
With Orange offering x net calls for 15p, tmobile 12p, and vodafone 10p off peak (30p up too an hour with stop the clock) surely o2 must look at refreshing their very poor PAYG tariff.
[]tter\/\/ard
23-05-2007
Originally Posted by on the air:
“With Orange offering x net calls for 15p, tmobile 12p, and vodafone 10p off peak (30p up too an hour with stop the clock) surely o2 must look at refreshing their very poor PAYG tariff.”

I wish they would. They haven't changed their PAYG tariffs since 2003.
DXRulz
23-05-2007
I do however have my reasons on not liking Orange much
eddie2004
24-05-2007
Originally Posted by DXRulz:
“Well i have used both Orange & T-Mobile and although their crossnet charges are very cheap, that didnt help me at all because most of the people i know are on O2 and it was all adding up.”

That don't make sense! If Xnet calls on Orange/T-mobile are cheap, how does that make calls to O2 add up?
DXRulz
24-05-2007
easy because if you get an O2 online payg sim and set it up with the free voice mins instead of free texts, those free mins are to O2 customers only so as long as i stay within the mins, it wont add up because its free
eddie2004
24-05-2007
Cheers, i understand now.
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