The Demise Of The Orange Text Saver

I think I may have to switch to 3 - they are going on at the moment about how cheap their pay as you go tariff is.

The chap in the Orange shop seemed to think calling Customer Services and raising hell might yield some results (I guess he meant in an under-the-table unofficial kinda way to keep my custom - but why should phone companies care about PAYG customers? Particularly people like me who haven't needed to buy a top-up card since 2002). But Customer Services just sympathised at length and offered no solution.

New number, yes - don't think you can port PAYG numbers.

Not necessarily a new phone though - you can probably get yours unlocked for about a tenner.

I last bought a £50 top-up card in Oct 2002; got £10 credit when I replaced my dying Motorola with the cheapest Siemens in Nov 2003 plus the £5 from the Text Saver. My current balance is just over £14. That's about 7p/day, I think. To maintain this I'd have to limit myself to one text every two days from now on and no calls.

yeah, it's the rest of us who have to pay to call him. still, at least he answers his phone...

Ah, but if you got a mobile phone, Koogs, I'd text you. Incessantly.

(Except not any more).

i have a perfectly good immobile phone that nobody calls. giving people a choice of numbers to ignore seems pointless.

(you can text normal BT phones now btw. they get read out in a robotic voice, including all the smiley things and x's at the end. i had one from a fumble-fingered friend who'd meant to send it to the number next to mine in her 'buddy list' or whatever they call them)