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Orange offer overdraft facility

Link: Orange becomes more like bank: launches overdraft facility | The Register

Just when you thought the world of mobile billing and tariffs couldn’t get any weirder, Orange have come up with a new cunning plan to make mo.. I mean help their customers.

Mobile phone customers signing up to Orange’s new Speakeasy pre-pay tariff can get themselves £2.50 worth of overdraft facility to keep them connected when their credit runs out, though they’ll have to pay £1 to sign up for it.

The overdraft facility, branded “Reserve Tank”, is part of the new tariff which also includes three “Magic Numbers” that are only charged at 15p an hour, and a flat 15p a minute rate for calling anyone else.

How long it’ll be before they start charging £30 for a letter and £20 for disallowing a call is anyones guess :)

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