ChrisB

Just got two text messages on my Orange mobile:

1)

VodafoneOmnitel welcomes you to Italy. Dial 42727 when you are in major public squares and receive information about them (this service has a charge)

2)

Welcome to VodafoneOmnitel. You can dial 123 to listen to your
voice-mail or 150 to contact Customer Care as you do in England.

Ey? Has Staffordshire joined the EU and moved to Italy?

merkin

Ciao Chris,

Como estai?

ChrisB

T w o b e e r s p l e a s e!

Mice_Elf

That'll be 16million Lira, please.

Or 4 Euros....

Rab

I'd be scared mate. Looks like someone may have cloned your sim and is running up charges in italia. Contact orange asap and let them know

ChrisB

I rung Orange straight away and the customer service bod saying nothing to worry about.

Time, date of call and person I spoke to noted should anything weird on the company bill ie not my problem!

phd

Has anyone had Orange ring them up and offer £50 off your next bill provided you stay with them for another 12 months?

Pete

Ian 20

Chris

Exactly the same thing happened to me about 1450 this afternoon. I received two texts in quick succession:

1) VodafoneOmnitel welcomes you to Italy. Dial 42727 when you are in major public squares and receive information about them (this service has a charge)
2) Welcome to VodafoneOmnitel! You can dial 123 to listen to your voice-mail or 150 to contact your Customer Care, as you do in England (chargeable communication)

I rang Orange and they logged it all so I don't get charged overseas rates when in Dorset!

It seems to me an attempt to get you to dial the numbers and get charged a truckload, however Orange told me to go to Phone settings and manually select Orange (it was previously set to automatic selection as I was skiing in France last week).

Strangely about an hour ago my phone lost signal and asked for me to select a network when I has manually selected Orange 5 hours ago???...

NotoriousREV

Stoke in Italy? Let's see:

Women with unshaven armpits - check
Spotty youths on mopeds - check
More spotty youths in Fiat Seicentos - check

Hmm, could be

ChrisB

LMAO @ REV

Ian, glad it's not just me then.

My network selection is set to Auto and I was in France w/end of 25/26th Jan for the Monte Carlo WRC. My two messages are time stampted 13:55 but I think that's CET.

Both are from 1122.

Ian 20

Chris

I was in France the week up to the 1 Feb as well and had the phone network selection set to auto also.

Now its manually set to Orange hopefully it will be OK!!