I don,t have an orange mobile phone but someone told me it is possible to call 0800 numbers for free fom the orange network if you know how to...is this correct info or out of date ? Anyone know ?

No, this is hopelessly out of date!

Years ago, pay monthly subscribers could call 0800 numbers for free.

Similarly, the bean counters had their way and Orange Everyphone was scrapped. This allowed pay monthly users to divert their number to another Orange mobile number or a landline number with no charge for any calls that were diverted.

dandy wrote on Aug 26^th, 2010 at 3:06pm:

I don,t have an orange mobile phone but someone told me it is possible to call 0800 numbers for free fom the orange network if you know how to...is this correct info or out of date ? Anyone know ?

Change to giffgaff PAYG (free 0500, 0800 and 0808 calls).

Heinz wrote on Aug 26^th, 2010 at 4:26pm:

Change to giffgaff PAYG (free 0500, 0800 and 0808 calls).

Giffgaff pricing:

To giffgaff mobiles, texts, call forwarding and video calls        Free
Calls to other UK mobiles and landlines, call forwarding (per minute)      8p
Texts to other UK mobiles and landlines      4p
Call forwarding to other mobiles and landlines (per minute)      8p
0800 numbers      Free

Special Services        20p
Corporate numbers      20p
0871, 0872, 0873 numbers      20p
0843, 0844, 0845 numbers      20p
Personal numbers      20p
07744, 07755 numbers      8p
056 numbers      8p


Also, calls to EU countries, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, India, Andorra, Croatia, Faroe Islands, French West Indies, Gibraltar, Kosovo, La Reunion, Montenegro, Serbia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Guernsey, Monaco, San Marino, Iceland, Norway, Vatican City, Channel Islands are 8ppm to landlines and 16ppm to mobiles in those countries.

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Heinz, that's really interesting! What other providers are there that offer such good rates?

None I know of.

Plus there's Payback for contributing to their Community forums (I was astonished to find I had earned £10.02 in 5 days by making 22 posts).

When I asked about other providers offering such good rates, I was referring to calls to UK mobiles (on and off-net) and UK landlines as these are the main types of calls made.

Asda Mobile:
http://www.asdamobile.com/compare_tariffs.html

Landline/03/all mobile/0800   8ppm

Thanks for all your posts about this topic, usefull information and very informative, never heard of that less well known ( ie not Tmobile, 02 etc.... ) mobile company for payasyougo....will check it out, and asda..... don,t know what we,d do without this forum !