I received a text from Orange on one of my pre-pay SIMs yesterday, informing of price changes coming in in September.
Details of these can be seen at
http://www1.orange.co.uk/septemberchanges/They make depressing reading.
Internet charges for 25 MB of browsing in a day double to £2;
From 2 September calls to 0500, 0845, 0870, 0844 and 0871 numbers will be charged at 40p per minute;
Calls to 0800 numbers will be charged at 25p per minute.
This will hardly attract them more pay & go customers I should have thought !
As one contributor on uk.telecom.mobile commented:-
I thought that 0870 had to be charged the same as 01/02/03 from August - but even if not, 40p a minute? And 25p/min for 0800? They're having a laugh...