Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Author: Geoff

Started receiving spam sms messages on the new Orange number, asking me to call a premium rate number 090-640-7077 ref BX57FT to claim a £2000 bonus prize. Filed a complaint with the regulator here ICSTIS After visiting this excellent site for grumbling on.

17-11-03 Another spam SMS this time:-

URGENT!: Your Mobile No. was awarded a £2,000 Bonus Caller Prize on 02/09/03! This is our 2nd attempt to contact YOU! Call 0871-872-9755 BOX95QU Filed another complaint

18-11-03 I emailed my phone supplier at www.mobileshop.com they came back with “I don’t know who/where this company SMS-ing you got your details from. We have had a couple of similar queries to this in the past few days, but they may not be related“. Need to check with my friends who also got phones from them to see if it is there database thats been hacked or Oranges.

Great hotel concept here in Finland, like the idea you get your room code when you do internet booking, price at 30 quid a night is excellent also.Omenahotellit

An ultra quiet PC with no internal fans, just like I’ve been wanting for the domestic enviroment. News

Shock horror of the bill from Orange for new Treo. Basically Orange have taking tautology to new peaks by defining “Open Access” to mean ability to access WAP pages only (free for first 3 months), not clear how one knows which are WAP pages or not.

Accessing internet and emails counts as GPRS which are charged at £3 per Megabyte! However, you can have a “Openworld” plan where first month is free and then you are charged £4 per month for 3megabytes of data plus 10 texts and 20 phototexts.

Also make sure you get your new phone on or shortly after 5th of month. otherwise your free first month is shortened accordingly.

The nice man at Orange credited me for GPRS usage todate since I was new to the GPRS/WAP game.