Analysis of my first Orange contract bill
I don’t pay the extra £1.50 for itemised billing, but I can still get a full itemised 18-page bill online in PDF format. Here’s a few key things that I noticed on my first phone bill from Orange:
- SMS delivery reports: 1p – Bad
- SMS to Jaiku: 20p (International) – Bad
- SMS to Twitter: Free – Excellent
- MMS to Flickr: 25p – Good
- 10% Love Your Number discount – Nice
- Unexpected 10% staff discount – Awesome!
So I’m only paying £28 for a £35 contract (Dolphin 35). What the guys at the store also forgot to mention was that the Love Your Number discount slowly increases by 5% each year up to 25%.
Orange seem to have endless ways to make me happy!
Update: Here’s a couple of quotes regarding the Orange employee discount which I noticed while scanning their terms & conditions:
- The “pay monthly offer” is 10% discount on line rental for the life of the contract.
- Offer is limited to a maximum of 5 phones per employee.
i don’t know who to ask and have been looking through website’s and found this, i just wanted to know when you get your bill from orange do the numbers come up on the bill that you have called with your minutes? if so, how do u change it?
Yeah, all the free texts and free calls appear as individual items on my bill. A typical Orange bill for me is about 20 pages.