* Posts by Richard 50

2 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Sep 2009

Overzealous Orange cuts off customer, still bills

Richard 50
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Better off without them

I ran three PAYG mobiles with them for some time. In the early days, their customer service was quite good, but it is now beyond a joke. The on-line top-up of the PAYG accounts rarely worked first time. Sometimes it claimed that a transaction had failed when it had not. Sometimes it double-debited my credit card.

I went through a phase of receiving bills for someone with a middle-eastern name, but otherwise correctly addressed to me.

As time went on, even threats of the regulator failed to have any effect. In the early days these would result in random calls with promises of follow-ups. These never happened.

Latterly, the chances of acknowledgement of any postal communication were absolutely zero.

As I say, better off without them.

T-Mobile picks Orange for merger

Richard 50

The only way is down

T-Mobile Customers should be very, very, frightened. Orange started out with decent customer service, but since then, I've experienced:

* A billing system that sends bills to someone I've never heard of, at my address

* A billing system with painfully obvious IT problems, not properly handling payments

* A SIM card which when transfered to a newer phone caused numbers from one UK exchange to be rejected as NU, but only if the phone was turned on (voicemail if off)

* A bunch of harrassed sounding staff who seem too overwhelmed to give proper support

* A (mobile) support number for my phone which seemed to be the private number of a relative of the support person.

* Idiotic SMS messages telling me what bonuses I haven't earned, this month

* An inability to respond to any communications, latterly, even when threatened with Oftel

* An opaque charging structure, entangled with "no way back" options

* And those idiotic animals

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...