Orange "free" 18 month broadband. Any problems ?

Hi - has anybody signed up for this. If so - any problems ?
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Grumps

I have no knowledge of this particular deal, but I do have a friend
who's a previous Wanadoo customer and now is on Orange.

His connection speeds seem as before, but Orange's advertised pop and
smtp accounts didn't seem to work when I plugged them into his email
client.

When I tried to read through their help pages, they weren't incredibly
clear and showed a mix of new Orange info and old Wanadoo info.



grumpycrab wrote:
> Hi - has anybody signed up for this. If so - any problems ?
> --
> Grumps

>I have no knowledge of this particular deal, but I do have a friend
> who's a previous Wanadoo customer and now is on Orange.

No major catches (well, possibly one...).
Get an Orange contract phone for 18 months and get 8Meg internet for free.
The catch is the 2Gig usage which, apparently, is flexible. If you are a
heavy user they will ask you to leave or upgrade to their "unlimited"
product for £10 per month.

But the really amazing thing about this deal is that you can get (new) 18
month Orange contracts for only £60. Ok the phone isn't going to be
brilliant but its difficult to ignore.

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Grumps

Wow, sounds a great deal.

Only thing better would have been if you'd given us a clue as to which
deal you're specifically referring to.


grumpycrab wrote:
> But the really amazing thing about this deal is that you can get (new) 18
> month Orange contracts for only £60. Ok the phone isn't going to be
> brilliant but its difficult to ignore.

On 4 Jul 2006, "Evan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Only thing better would have been if you'd given us a clue as to which
>deal you're specifically referring to.

For which you might find pointers over on uk.telecom.mobile but there
presumably will have been some of these "cash back" deals where you can
get some refund of charges on submission of a number of paid statements
at various stages through the contract (eg 6, 12, 18 months) so while a
check by Orange would reveal payments of 35.00/month (for example) they
won't see the refunding of 190 pounds each 6 months - giving an overall
cost of 20 pounds per 6 months or 60 pounds over course of 18 months).

> Only thing better would have been if you'd given us a clue as to which
> deal you're specifically referring to.

These are my 2 bookmarked links...
http://tinyurl.co.uk/idca and
http://tinyurl.co.uk/iwd4

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Grumps

Read about those. More bad stories than good. Very few people so far
have been able to say they've made it through the year contract and
been refunded all their bills.

poster wrote:
> On 4 Jul 2006, "Evan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >Only thing better would have been if you'd given us a clue as to which
> >deal you're specifically referring to.
>
> For which you might find pointers over on uk.telecom.mobile but there
> presumably will have been some of these "cash back" deals where you can
> get some refund of charges on submission of a number of paid statements
> at various stages through the contract (eg 6, 12, 18 months) so while a
> check by Orange would reveal payments of 35.00/month (for example) they
> won't see the refunding of 190 pounds each 6 months - giving an overall
> cost of 20 pounds per 6 months or 60 pounds over course of 18 months).

On 5 Jul 2006 "Evan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Read about those. More bad stories than good. Very few people so far
>have been able to say they've made it through the year contract and
>been refunded all their bills.

Please don't "top post" as it is unwelcome by many readers here, and while
quoting, it aids reading if a bit of trimming is done...

Agree there can be problems, but main point was to give a hint as to where
else to be looking, and/or what to look for. As for whether to use such a
deal, that's down to customer choice, and buyer beware applies, of course.
(I didn't know if you were aware of those cash-back deals.) Peter M.

grumpycrab wrote:
>> Only thing better would have been if you'd given us a clue as to
>> which deal you're specifically referring to.
>
> These are my 2 bookmarked links...
> http://tinyurl.co.uk/idca and
> http://tinyurl.co.uk/iwd4

This is also worth bookmarking

http://www.nocostmobiles.co.uk/index.asp?m=all