Mobile Phones
I hadn't changed my mobile phone contract since I got my phone, years ago. It's not a bad deal (Everyday 50 on orange, 50p/day for 50 off peak same network minutes, but on peak or off network is pricey), but I don't use my phone much, and when I do it's often on peak. I've been looking around, and saw t-mobile's flext 20 rate (which is 15 pounds a month now, so cheaper than 50p/day). Out of curiosity I checked the price for data (0.73p per kb), then the price for the flext20+web'n'walk rate. The latter is also 15 pounds/month and includes unlimited data, and the non-data bit is identical. Why have two different prices for the same thing? (Other weirdness - on the flext20 rate alone you can get a Nokia 6280 included, which can do the web stuff, but on the flext20+wnw, you can't, but you can get the more expensive N70 instead, which would have cost an additional 20pounds on the flext20 alone.)
It's all very strange to me, but I phoned Orange and requested my PAC (and unlike when I've heard of other people doing this they didn't offer me any great deal :P ), so when it comes through in the post it looks like I'll be getting a new N70. Goodbye and good riddance silly little Motorola V500.
(t-mobile's PAYG looks quite good too, but I would like a new phone as the Moto's battery doesn't last very long, and being on contract means I should be able to use it when I pop over to Australia next year.) Sorry for the boring post, everyone.
It's all very strange to me, but I phoned Orange and requested my PAC (and unlike when I've heard of other people doing this they didn't offer me any great deal :P ), so when it comes through in the post it looks like I'll be getting a new N70. Goodbye and good riddance silly little Motorola V500.
(t-mobile's PAYG looks quite good too, but I would like a new phone as the Moto's battery doesn't last very long, and being on contract means I should be able to use it when I pop over to Australia next year.) Sorry for the boring post, everyone.