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Re: [LUG] OT: Mobile data charges

 

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Simon Waters wrote:
> Somewhat limited here as only Orange have good reception in the village.
> Orange were offer 750MB per month for 7.50 but the best I can find now
> is 250MB a month for 7.50 from Orange. Vodaphone doesn't seem to work at
> all, and O2 is unreliable but I lived with it before so might be the answer.
>
> GiffGaff offer the best deal price wise, but being on the O2 network the
> coverage here is probably too hit and miss (in that I'd like some phone
> calls and text to arrive when at home with some reliability. On the
> other hand it might be simpler to go that way, and just accept the lousy
> signal when at home.

Are you with Orange now? Telling them you want to leave because you
can find a better offer somewhere else -- you don't need to tell them
that it'll be on a network with limited or no coverage where you live
-- may prompt them to make you a much better offer.

That's what happened when my wife wanted to buy a smartphone and we
told Vodafone, where she'd been a sim-only customer for years, we had
found a much better offer at (I believe) O2. We asked for the code you
need to take your phone number to another provider and they sent it
but before we used it they gave us a call and made a much better
offer.

Not sure if this will work if you've been on PAYG, but then, you'd
still need that code to take your number to a new provider and if they
send it and you don't use it (within 48 hours I believe) nothing
changes.

Martijn.

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