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Nortel BCM 50B Telephone System – Refurbished

Well, its not the most inspiring of items unless you are intending on fitting out an office on the cheap with a new ( well a remanufactured ) telephone system but I have been helping a friend with putting some stuff up on eBay ( by the way I am still sad that they went corporate and changed their logo ) and I just had to bring your attention to these fascinating pieces of communications kit which comprises several components such as ISDN Interfaces – Voice Mail Boxes and Nortel Avaya Phone System equipment.

These are being sold on eBay at the page here http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Telcomkit

The good thing about refurbished telephone systems is that you get great value for money, you get a decent warranty and you actually save the environment a bit by limiting the amount of stuff that goes into landfill from electric waste.

Orange PAYG and GIFFGAFF

I have been an Orange / EE customer for 15 years and a couple of years ago I switched to PAYG as I was annoyed with the large bills that I was receiving and it seemed ( it is ) that it was an expensive hire purchase on a piece of harware – 12 month contracts with free replacements and voicemail changed to 24 month contracts with no freebies chucked in. Suddenly instead of feting the customers it seemed like the customers were made to feel honoured to use / pay for the service.

Anyway I got on with Orange, finding out after 6 monthst that you could buy packages of minutes and texts and web use for a fiver a throw – only for these to go up to £7.50 quite quickly.

The final straw with Orange’s thieving bastard system (oops ) was that if you buy say 100 minutes and start using them and then think ” oh no if i finish these off by accident I will start paying 25p a minute so you buy another 100 minutes (£7,50 ) thinking good Ive got 135 minutes left. The system then starts using up the new minutes ( they last a month from date of ourchase by the way ) before the old ones are used up so if you dont spoeak too much your initial top up’s remaining 35 minutes expire whilst you chat on the newly purchased minutes.

So I looked up on Giffgaff ands aw that for 12 pounds a month I can get what would cost me probably 35 on EE/ Orange – they have a nice system which notifies me of my balance at all times and the website does the same.

This is not paid for this post, just I felt I oughtta share my displeasure of previous supplier and my pleasure of finding a good new one.