Orange mobile + broadband advertisment?

[I hope the crossposting is OK.]

My daughter tells me she saw a poster inside an Underground
train advertising an Orange mobile phone plan with a "free"
Blackberry Pearl, free broadband for the first 6 months, and
broadband for £5/month thereafter. She can't remember the
monthly cost of the contract.

The plan, whatever it is, presumably doesn't include an e-mail
service. My daughter believes she will be able to access her
Hotmail account using an e-mail contract with Blackberry: is
that correct? (She's been pestering me a lot about all this
recently, but so far I've been able to resist making a rash
and possibly expensive decision.)

I'm new to this stuff (i.e. both mobile phones and broadband),
which is perhaps why I can't find any reference to this offer
on the Orange website.

I'm with Orange on dial-up at the moment, and I'm somewhat
reluctant to continue with them on broadband (especially in
view of their reviews at <http://www.ispreview.co.uk/>) but
if I can really save a great deal of money I may do so, and
at least I would like to check this offer out.
--
Angus Rodgers
(twirlip@ eats spam; reply to angusrod@)
Contains mild peril

"Angus Rodgers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> [I hope the crossposting is OK.]

No, its not.

http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.adverts.telecom.mobile.html
"Cross-posts to other uk.* groups are not permitted."

[cross-posting removed, for the moment at least]

[the first part of what follows is a separate copy of the
reply I've already posted to uk.telecom.mobile]

<sigh>

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:25:34 -0000, "Enzo"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>"Angus Rodgers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>> [I hope the crossposting is OK.]
>
>No, its not.

Do you mind saying why not, since the post was on-topic
for both newsgroups?

>http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.adverts.telecom.mobile.html
>"Cross-posts to other uk.* groups are not permitted."

That is for a different newsgroup! Whereas here:
<http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.telecom.mobile.html>
there is no such prohibition (and it would be surprising,
to me at least, if there was).

(I have now also checked:
<http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.telecom.broadband.html>
and there is no prohibition there, either.)
--
Angus Rodgers
(twirlip@ eats spam; reply to angusrod@)
Contains mild peril

Enzo wrote:

> "Angus Rodgers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>
> > [I hope the crossposting is OK.]
>
> No, its not.

Well it's OK with me for sure


> http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.adverts.telecom.mobile.html
> "Cross-posts to other uk.* groups are not permitted."

Irrelevant. No advert group was involved.

FUCKWIT !

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:25:34 -0000,it is alleged that "Enzo"
<(E-Mail Removed)> spake thusly in uk.telecom.broadband:

>"Angus Rodgers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>> [I hope the crossposting is OK.]
>
>No, its not.
>
>http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.adverts.telecom.mobile.html
>"Cross-posts to other uk.* groups are not permitted."
>

But the original wasn't posted to that group... and the subject is
relevent to both groups

--
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those
which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
- Helen Rowland

"Angus Rodgers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> [I hope the crossposting is OK.]
>
> My daughter tells me she saw a poster inside an Underground
> train advertising an Orange mobile phone plan with a "free"
> Blackberry Pearl, free broadband for the first 6 months, and
> broadband for £5/month thereafter. She can't remember the
> monthly cost of the contract.
>

I bet she can't - although she would if she had to pay for it.

> The plan, whatever it is, presumably doesn't include an e-mail
> service. My daughter believes she will be able to access her
> Hotmail account using an e-mail contract with Blackberry: is
> that correct?

Look at the company offering the deal, it should show everything.

>(She's been pestering me a lot about all this
> recently, but so far I've been able to resist making a rash
> and possibly expensive decision.)
>

Well done!

> I'm new to this stuff (i.e. both mobile phones and broadband),
> which is perhaps why I can't find any reference to this offer
> on the Orange website.
>

It's a simple case of looking at what is on offer and how much it costs.

> I'm with Orange on dial-up at the moment, and I'm somewhat
> reluctant to continue with them on broadband (especially in
> view of their reviews at <http://www.ispreview.co.uk/>) but
> if I can really save a great deal of money I may do so, and
> at least I would like to check this offer out.
> --
> Angus Rodgers

I think you're being lied to so you buy someone a phone.

(E-Mail Removed) declared for all the world to hear...
> [I hope the crossposting is OK.]
>
> My daughter tells me she saw a poster inside an Underground
> train advertising an Orange mobile phone plan with a "free"
> Blackberry Pearl, free broadband for the first 6 months, and
> broadband for £5/month thereafter. She can't remember the
> monthly cost of the contract.

Currently there is 6 months free blackberry service on offer (normally
about £7 quid extra per month) and the reduced-price broadband offer is
also available with £30 per month / 18 Month contracts(£5 for home
starter, £15 for home max)

> The plan, whatever it is, presumably doesn't include an e-mail
> service. My daughter believes she will be able to access her
> Hotmail account using an e-mail contract with Blackberry: is
> that correct?

Only if she uses the premium flavour of hotmail (the one you have to pay
for). Free hotmail accounts do not allow for POP3 access which is what
the blackberry depends on.

> I'm new to this stuff (i.e. both mobile phones and broadband),
> which is perhaps why I can't find any reference to this offer
> on the Orange website.
>
> I'm with Orange on dial-up at the moment, and I'm somewhat
> reluctant to continue with them on broadband (especially in
> view of their reviews at <http://www.ispreview.co.uk/>) but
> if I can really save a great deal of money I may do so, and
> at least I would like to check this offer out.

Go to an Orange shop for advice. One of the stores on Oxford Street is a
dedicated business store.
--
Regards
Jon