Orange has launched its most credit crunchy phone contract to date, the lowest ever to be seen in the UK. The £5 per month contract nets you a Nokia 2630, 50 free minutes and 50 free texts. Orange is also offering £10 and £15 per month alternatives with more minutes and texts, and better handsets, for the slightly more flushed phone buyer.
The Orange £5 per month contract sounds like a superb deal and, needless to say, there’s a catch. To get this deal, you have to tie yourself into a 36 month contract. That’s three full years. Yes, you’d get less than that for knocking over a pensioner.
Fortunately, there’s one thing that’ll ease the burden of signing your soul over to a mobile company for such a long time… Orange doesn’t expect you to stick to one phone for that long. After 18 months, it’ll give you a free upgrade to your mobile, although obviously we don’t yet know which new handset it’ll be yet. We’ll put good money on it not being the HTC Hero though.
Orange has also neglected to assign an obscure animal avatar to its low-budget pay month range. We’re going to suggest ‘Hamster’ for the fact that they cost very little in upkeep, but at the same time they offer less an hour’s worth of entertainment per month. Oh, and once they’ve got their teeth into you, they’re extremely hard to dislodge.
Out now | From £5 per month | Orange
