(just for fun) Who has the oldest tariff/handset in use

Like I say, just for fun. Someone was mocking my 3330 the other day,
but I bet it's a spring chicken yet!

Handsets have to connected and in at least weekly use-not in a drawer.

Many old tariffs would be poor value today, but anyone still on 'U'
PAYG or Orange Everyday 50 contract?
For certain patterns of use they might still make sense.

(the former was never really matched until 'mates rates' came out on
T-mob, and IMHO the latter has never been bettered)

uk.telecom.mobile.nostalgia anyone?

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<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Like I say, just for fun. Someone was mocking my 3330 the other day,
> but I bet it's a spring chicken yet!
>
> Handsets have to connected and in at least weekly use-not in a drawer.
>
> Many old tariffs would be poor value today, but anyone still on 'U'
> PAYG or Orange Everyday 50 contract?
> For certain patterns of use they might still make sense.
>
> (the former was never really matched until 'mates rates' came out on
> T-mob, and IMHO the latter has never been bettered)

3310 & literaly last week i dumped eveyday 50, went onto PAYG as i wasnt get
the use out of ED50, i bet they thought thank feck for that thats another
gone !

<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Like I say, just for fun. Someone was mocking my 3330 the other day,
> but I bet it's a spring chicken yet!
>
> Handsets have to connected and in at least weekly use-not in a drawer.
>
> Many old tariffs would be poor value today, but anyone still on 'U'
> PAYG or Orange Everyday 50 contract?
> For certain patterns of use they might still make sense.
>
> (the former was never really matched until 'mates rates' came out on
> T-mob, and IMHO the latter has never been bettered)
>
> uk.telecom.mobile.nostalgia anyone?
>

OK here goes

My Mums has an old Sagem mw3020, must be at least five years old on an O2
paid up for life SIM that cost £60, at least four years ago, and hass 200
mins off peak every month and nothing more to pay ever !!!!

and my Dad is still using his old Motorola MR30, now that is a brick, on an
Orange PAYG and the phone is still gong strong. In fact I got him a cheapo
Moto C139 when thay were £10 last year at CPW, but he still uses the MR30
!!!!!

DeeBee

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Like I say, just for fun. Someone was mocking my 3330 the other day,
> but I bet it's a spring chicken yet!
>
> Handsets have to connected and in at least weekly use-not in a drawer.
>
> Many old tariffs would be poor value today, but anyone still on 'U'
> PAYG or Orange Everyday 50 contract?
> For certain patterns of use they might still make sense.
>
> (the former was never really matched until 'mates rates' came out on
> T-mob, and IMHO the latter has never been bettered)
>
> uk.telecom.mobile.nostalgia anyone?
>
Nokia 5140 with some free Virgin sims. The phone still works fine and I
have had that since 1998. Much better sound quality than modern phones.

On 22 Oct 2006 07:35:45 -0700, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>Like I say, just for fun. Someone was mocking my 3330 the other day,
>but I bet it's a spring chicken yet!
>
>Handsets have to connected and in at least weekly use-not in a drawer.
>
>Many old tariffs would be poor value today, but anyone still on 'U'
>PAYG or Orange Everyday 50 contract?
>For certain patterns of use they might still make sense.

I still have ED50, suits me right down to the ground

I also still have my Motorola L7089, with an old Cellnet PAYG SIM in it.

(the onscreen network ID is "UK CELLNET" - it predates BTCELLNET)

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"DeeBee" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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[snip]

> My Mums has an old Sagem mw3020, must be at least five
> years old on an O2 paid up for life SIM that cost £60, at
> least four years ago, and hass 200 mins off peak every
> month and nothing more to pay ever !!!!

Hmm, that sounds like a good one, can't say I ever heard of it, wish I had
now..!

> and my Dad is still using his old Motorola MR30, now that
> is a brick, on an Orange PAYG and the phone is still gong
> strong. In fact I got him a cheapo Moto C139 when thay
> were £10 last year at CPW, but he still uses the MR30
> !!!!!

I've still got my MR30 that I had when I first joined Orange in 1997. Used
it for 3 years, in fact the only reason I changed it was the battery died
and it was cheaper to replace the whole phone..!

Then I had a Nokia nk702 (single band version of the 6150) then a 6150
proper (which I still have and do use occasionally) then the 6210
(lousy..!) and finally the 6310i, of which I now have three (two in
regular use, one new boxed as a spare..!)

I do also have a 7250i which I got given as an upgrade, but I never liked
it so stuck with the 6310i.

Ivor

"Soruk" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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[snip]

> I also still have my Motorola L7089, with an old Cellnet
> PAYG SIM in it.
>
> (the onscreen network ID is "UK CELLNET" - it predates
> BTCELLNET)

My Nokia 6150e (ex Orange) displays just "CELLNET" when I put an O2 SIM in
it.

Ivor

"Ivor Jones" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "DeeBee" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]
>
> [snip]
>
>> My Mums has an old Sagem mw3020, must be at least five
>> years old on an O2 paid up for life SIM that cost £60, at
>> least four years ago, and hass 200 mins off peak every
>> month and nothing more to pay ever !!!!
>
> Hmm, that sounds like a good one, can't say I ever heard of it, wish I had
> now..!
>

Yep O2 did these many years ago, I think they were £100 with a cheapo phone,
and you could have 50 mins any time or 200 mins off peak to landlines and
O2, so not cross net.

I got two SIMS, one for Mun (200 mins) and one for my wife (50 mins) for I
think £60 each, and O2 still honour them to this day, although I bet they
will look for any excuse to get us off them :-)

DeeBee

nokia 2240 I fink it is, first orange mobile, still in use on pc :-)


<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Like I say, just for fun. Someone was mocking my 3330 the other day,
> but I bet it's a spring chicken yet!
>
> Handsets have to connected and in at least weekly use-not in a drawer.
>
> Many old tariffs would be poor value today, but anyone still on 'U'
> PAYG or Orange Everyday 50 contract?
> For certain patterns of use they might still make sense.
>
> (the former was never really matched until 'mates rates' came out on
> T-mob, and IMHO the latter has never been bettered)
>
> uk.telecom.mobile.nostalgia anyone?
>

>
> I also still have my Motorola L7089, with an old Cellnet PAYG SIM in it.
>
> (the onscreen network ID is "UK CELLNET" - it predates BTCELLNET)
>

What tariff is it? Easylife?

[email protected] wrote:
> Like I say, just for fun. Someone was mocking my 3330 the other day,
> but I bet it's a spring chicken yet!
> Handsets have to connected and in at least weekly use-not in a drawer.
> Many old tariffs would be poor value today, but anyone still on 'U'
> PAYG or Orange Everyday 50 contract?
> For certain patterns of use they might still make sense.
> (the former was never really matched until 'mates rates' came out on
> T-mob, and IMHO the latter has never been bettered)
> uk.telecom.mobile.nostalgia anyone?

Tariffs I'm still on are, ED50, PUFFL 50 & 200, Anytime 20, Easylife
& U before they closed the platform see:
http://www.o2.co.uk/mobilestariffs/t...latformclosure and
the phones that went with them, Philips Diga, Philips C12.

Though I still have my U.Genie email address that I registered
originally back in 1999 when the U pre-pay tariff/mobiles were
launched, with the U.Genie ISP. This was possible due to stopping them
(then known as Genie Internet/BT Cellnet) from closing down the ISP
operations altogether in 2001, so users could at least retain their
email addresses. U mobiles would have come with a U.Genie CD in the box
or you could have signed-up online for there internet service at the
time, so part of U lives on! (funny though it may sound but so true)
See my support site for users at: http://www.u.genie.btinternet.co.uk
also listed on http://www.filesaveas.com/o2.html (under useful links)

Dan

[email protected] declared for all the world to hear...
> My Mums has an old Sagem mw3020, must be at least five years old on an O2
> paid up for life SIM that cost £60, at least four years ago, and hass 200
> mins off peak every month and nothing more to pay ever !!!!
>
> and my Dad is still using his old Motorola MR30, now that is a brick, on an
> Orange PAYG and the phone is still gong strong. In fact I got him a cheapo
> Moto C139 when thay were £10 last year at CPW, but he still uses the MR30

My mother uses a Nokia 5110 which I gave her about 8 years ago after
having had it for nearly 2 myself, on Vodafone smartstep PAYG.
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Jon

<snip>
>, Easylife
> & U before they closed the platform see:
> http://www.o2.co.uk/mobilestariffs/t...latformclosure and
> the phones that went with them, Philips Diga, Philips C12.
>

So U etc have only just gone. They also offered a 'call any one BT
Landline free' tariff- my first mobile in 2000. I don't know how many
people were still on that, but I can see it might have made sense for
some people to stick with that tariff. Did that tariff have a name?

On 22 Oct 2006 10:08:36 -0700, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I also still have my Motorola L7089, with an old Cellnet PAYG SIM in it.
>>
>> (the onscreen network ID is "UK CELLNET" - it predates BTCELLNET)
>
>What tariff is it? Easylife?

That was specific to the Philips Diga handset. "U" was on that and the
C12.

It's the PAYG tariff that was available in mid-2001. (The L7089 was
originally on Orange.)

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[email protected] declared for all the world to hear...
> So U etc have only just gone. They also offered a 'call any one BT
> Landline free' tariff- my first mobile in 2000. I don't know how many
> people were still on that, but I can see it might have made sense for
> some people to stick with that tariff. Did that tariff have a name?

Pay and Go best friend.
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Jon