Orange and data costs, not bad, not bad

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I was having a look at Orange’s data price plans today. A friend of mine has just got herself a Nokia N95. More on that later.

She’s on Orange though. So I had a look to see what sort of damage it would be, from a data perspective.

So it’s not shocking.

Not too shocking.

First off, you can pay £4 and get four meg’s worth of inclusive data. Granted that you’ll blow this in a few minutes if you’re using an N95 anywhere near how it is intended, but after that, it’s only a quid a meg.

I say ‘only’ because Vodafone is currently double that.

At £40 a month, Orange will offer you 80mb inclusive. Bit shit that. But the per meg fee drops to £0.65/meg.

Stump up £88 and you can have unlimited data.

That’s a bit shite.

Hmm.

Well, it’s not as bad as Vodafone or o2. So that is to be encouraged.

It’s a bit of a shame taking delivery of an N95 and then not having the data plans available at reasonable cost to really make use of it.