Oops. Mobile phone bill soars

[matgb]

OK, the moral of this story is...

I have 1000 free minutes evening and weekend to landline and other Orange phones. This is good. Except that, well, people who know me know I don't tend to ring people that often, and when I do, it tends to be a fairly brief "I'm on my way", or "I got your email, I'll get back to you" or "No, I'm not out of bed yet, I'll be there after I've had time for coffee". That's normally the length of my phone conversations. My August bill says I used 9.32 minutes out of those 1000 available.

I also get 25 minutes free to any other network. Good job really. When offering to ring someone regularly, check that the Orange handset they have also has an Orange SIM card? Oops.

So, I think I need to a) start using my minutes up a bit on occasions (yes, I know I should ring my mother more often), and b) keep track of who I can ring for free.

Besides, it's an excuse to put up a text entry poll and see how they work.
[Poll #577930]
Results only seen by me, it was either that or screen comments, bit pointless really.

Comments

[faeriecween.livejournal.com]

numpty

[angelil.livejournal.com]

How will you know whose number is whose in this poll? lol

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

i don't think it's an anonymous poll - you can see who's given which answer.

[matgb]

You can? That shouldn't be able to happen.

I know I can, but that's not a problemm and is part of the idea.

[blue5hadow.livejournal.com]

no (you numpty :P)

She means that it's not anonymous in that the name is stored with the answers, not that everyoe can see the results

[matgb]

Yeah, that's what she means, you're right. It isn't what she said. Must engage superior Freddie to English translator. anyone got a cute yellow fish I can stick in my ear?

[matgb]

I can click a link that says 'view results'. I'm hoping no one else can, as that would mean it's not anonymous. Can you check there is no such link?

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

i looked. i can't see the results...

oh, and yeah, what gareth said ;-)

[silentgreeneyes.livejournal.com]

perhaps see if you can change the free minutes to free texts if you use those more?

[matgb]

100 free texts a month as well, it's a pretty good deal all round.

[silentgreeneyes.livejournal.com]

who with? Could do with a deal like that myself.. dependant on the monthly price, and whether or not I could keep my number as I really can't be bothered phoning everyone to tell em a new one.

[matgb]

Um, Orange? The free calls to 'other orange' surely gave that away? ;-)

It'sa special deal though, they matched an O2 deal we found. £20 per month plus call charges (and, in my case, game download charges)