Orange upgrades to TYTN II ..what tariff deals are you getting?

[issie]

Am not sure if this is the right area for this post but here goes:

Orderd my TYTN II today on my old tariff of £20.00 a month which includes 200 text, 10 photo messages + 5mb data, 1000 minutes off peak.. phone was free and all on a 12 month contract. my total cost for the whole year will be £240. when the large data bundles come out i may go for it but for now i tend to use my m3100 throgh the wi-fi at home. i only tend to download my hotmail/gmail messages or msn when on the move ie twice a week if no wifi is avail. what i am worried about is that it would have been nice to have the Anytime tariff.

I might still get a sim only monthly tariff off T-mobile.

[scoobyg]

Does anyone know what this will be called on Orange. Are they going the same way as they did with the touch?

[issie]

its called the Orange TYTN II

[cupcake]

Deleted... was talking bollocks!

[fergusstrachan]

WOOHOO! Finally got to talk to someone in Retentions who has a brain.

Got the TYTN II for free but had to take an 18mth contract.

Same deal as I was on - £35 (I think) for 500 any time, any network mins, 500 texts.
Probably not the best deal, but beggars cannae be choosers!

F.

[issie]

good one enjoy.....

[ajs007]

Hi Guys, just got my Kaiser / Tytn 2 on Orange ...
Here's the deal - (I think it's good for the rest of October)
Racoon 35 - £35/month on 18 month contract - this gives 700 across any network minutes, plus 100 text (not a big text guy) .. plus unlimited landline numbers starting 01 or 02.
On the £35 contract, the tytn2 was £89.99 but the package provided cashback on an old phone ... I got £150 c/b on an old nail of a Nokia 3110 ... cashback works on airtime credit so I've bought the phone with four months free use.
They are also providing unlimited data access at evenings and weekends for two months.
Negatives .. No sexy iPhone style HTC black theme .. watch out for the data after two months free use .. the small print automatically puts you on a £5 a month data tariff if you don't opt out (the same with the traffic TV service too).
PS, Just installed Tomtom 6 and the internal GPS works better than my old bluetooth did on my XDA mini.
Wish list ... make the display look like the iPhone :)

[Jetdriver330]

Well, after getting Orange to put £100 credit on my account to upgrade to a free TYTN II on a 12 month contract, I thought I'd phone up their customer services and have a small whinge about their appallingly bad data bundles. Currently I pay £4 for a measly 4mb on an old orange world bundle. Their best offer was £8 for a capped 30mb per month. Eventually, having been fobbed off with a stock answer I was put through to a "supervisor" who agreed, when I mentioned Vodafones £7.50 for 120mb deal, that the Orange one was, perhaps, lacking!

I explained that with modern phones such as the TYTN II having the potential for being far more data intensive (google maps, youtube, skype, bbc streaming etc) that it was about time Orange offered a fair price for a decent or even uncapped data limit.

Apparently, this may happen sooner rather than later, as I was told that new tariffs were being rolled out in March ('08) and that after many complaints data tariffs were also being revamped. I do hope that this does indeed transpire. If anyone has any further info please post...

[tsadek]

Hmm. Wonder how much these new data bundles will cost?

Can't see them allowing you to move from an £8/month 30Mb bundle to a cheaper with more data one? or maybe they will surprise us...for once.

[Radeon123]

Spoke to a nice woman at Orange last month, I told here that I am paying £8 for 30mb and said I wanted to change my data bundle to the 250mb one. She checked and said it was only for business customers as I was on an animal plan, I lied and said a friend rang up a while ago and said he was on an animal plan and they put him on the 250mb package ok ;), she went and checked with her supervisor and she said that I could go on the 250mb package on my current animal plan :eek: :D

So everyone on the 30mb Orange data bundle, I would phone Orange now and request the much bigger package for less money, am so happy now :D

Orange World for Business 4 £2.50 4MB £0.80
Orange World for Business 10 £5.00 10MB £0.80
Orange World for Business 250 £6.38 250MB £0.80
Orange World for Business 1024 £17.02 1024MB £0.80
Orange World for Business 2048 £21.28 2048MB £0.80

[mcgra]

Spoke to a nice woman at Orange last month, I told here that I am paying £8 for 30mb and said I wanted to change my data bundle to the 250mb one. She checked and said it was only for business customers as I was on an animal plan, I lied and said a friend rang up a while ago and said he was on an animal plan and they put him on the 250mb package ok ;), she went and checked with her supervisor and she said that I could go on the 250mb package on my current animal plan :eek: :D

So everyone on the 30mb Orange data bundle, I would phone Orange now and request the much bigger package for less money, am so happy now :D


This has made my day, i'm going to ring them tomorrow and say the same thing, hopefully they will bump me up.

They told me on the phone the next level up from £8 - 30mb was £35 - 80mb, I mean what the hell? Isn't bandwidth supposed to get cheaper the more you buy?

They are so far behind the competition with their data charges it's beyond a joke. Unfortunately for me I live rurally and have no choice but to use Orange as it's the only carrier with a decent signal out here.

[Jetdriver330]

Mr Radeon123 was not wrong. Just got myself 250mb for £6.38 per month (which is minus the VAT) so £8.00 or thereabouts is the charge per month. Thanks for the info matey!!! :)

[Radeon123]

If they don't bump you up just keep phoning, someone will eventually put you on the business data tariff.

I think the business tariffs should be the normal data tariffs as the current ones are redicolous :mad:

Here is my 250mb data bundle screenshot as proof :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/Radeon/NewPicture-1.jpg

[Jygar]

I'd be shipping off to T-Mobile to be honest.

Shame 3 dont do the handset, there network deals have become good and their data packages are defo better.

[Jetdriver330]

Got my better half (not so techie) on a 2mb per day data bundle with Orange and that is FREE for ever. They do charge £0.50 per 50kb if you go over (£10 per mb) so spb gprs monitor is pretty useful.

Having just got the 250mb for £8.00 business bundle put on my personal account, I enquired again about the possibility of updated data bundles coming out in March...

STOP PRESS!! The lady I spoke to said that on 1/3/08 £8.00 will buy UNLIMITED DATA (NOT capped at 30mb or anything else)

Hope this information proves to be correct and is of use to those of you in the UK...

[spikey0321]

I've also just upgraded to the £8 data bundle, the guy I spoke to said the fair usage policy kicks in if you go over 1Gb on a regular basis, so I think thats as close to unlimited as you can get for mobile use, so long as your not using it as a modem too much.

To top it off as I'm getting my 8Mb broadband connection free with my contract it's a relatively cheap option for data.
:D

[KAJE]

My Tytn II is about 2-3 months old, I got in on Vodafone for free on an 18 month contract. Originally I had to pay £40 per month for 750 mins & unlimited texts. I haggled with them and brought them down to £25 for the same! WOO!

[timekeepermp]

Well i was gonna leave orange and got this deal in the end , phone free , £35 18 month contract giving 500mins cross network and unlimited text messages , 100 additional loyalty bonus minutes , £5 monthly discount loyalty bonus and the basic data package :)

[bigdish]

Be careful with the data package.
I was offered the unlimited data access at evenings and weekends for two months.
I had data charges for about £4.00 for each of those two months.
When I queried this I was told I had gone to websites outside the Orange World portal !
I no longer use Orange for data.
r
Andrew

[jynxy2000]

I have two phone contracts with orange 35 pound/month each for 500 mins and 500 text. Near the end of contract. Over the last month, I've phoned disconnections 5 times getting a better offer each time. Tonight I went with this:

Phone 1) SE K810i 600mins & unlimited text 15pound/month
Phone 2) TyTn 11 700 mins & 100 text ... wait for it 20 pounds/month.
Both phones free. Also added 250MB data to the TyTn11 for extra 7.50/month.

I'm pretty chuffed. Phones arrive Thursday. Now on to ebay for 8GB microSD card!

Andy

[tleaf100]

orange have the most expensive data plans,even business plans are rubbish when compared to 3 network.
use new combined sid/security/sim unlocker and unlock phone to run any networks sims.
then use n95 cab so that 3 think tytn is a nokia
buy 3 payg sim and 3gb data package, sim £15, package £15

enjoy better hsdpa/3g speeds at a far better price than orange will offer in future

[Basil3]

Sounds like some of you guys have got some amazing deals. I've just left vodafone as I've managed to go to t-mobile flext 50 with web'n'walk for £28.50 per month, along with vario 3 for free. Phoned vodafone disconnections several times and they couldn't come remotely close.....but by the sounds of it they could've if they tried harder :D

[mcall_r]

hi guys

i actually work for orange and what yous have done is an amazing deal!
we'd never be able to offer that in the shop.

ive got Dolphin 40 at the moment with the £5 web discount.
that gives me 750 mins Unlimited texts
Unlimited evening and weekend browsing
free access to bebo
and 100 extra FOC minutes.

i am interested in phoning and asking for the 250MB bundle, but what did yous actually say to them to get them to do it? Cos i tend to be quite lenient with the CS advisors as i have to speak to them on a daily basis and hate being pushy like the customers lol.

as with regards to orange bringing out new data bundles, we have had no word.

what i do find pretty funny tho as i got briefed today, orange are bringing out a new tarriff based on calling abroad and are calling it "Camel" LOL
i just thought that was pretty funny.

cheers

[tleaf100]

just got my 3 pay as you go sim,£1.99 !!! + £15 broadband topup = 3gb allowance for 30 days,less than 50% of orange daily !!!
orange sim can go in crappy motorola rzr 7 that orange sent me as a supposed upgrade FROM a sony/ericsson p910i ..deh
getting more expensive and worse service everyday with orange and you can only get decent deal by going through disconnections/retentions ..