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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1303 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on August 7, 2003 and belongs in the misc. category. The previous post was August 6th, 1945, and the next post is Best Edinburgh Fringe Show Title Ever.

My Orange Tech Support Hell

Just a quick one: If you ever need to phone Orange tech sup­port, you must refuse to speak to anyone who is below ‘Level 3’ status.

I think they get staff for Levels 1 & 2 by adver­tis­ing for folk who have never, ever seen a tele­phone or com­puter, then wipe their feeble brains so that they don’t even recog­nise the words ‘telephone’ and ‘computer’ any more.

I mean, you’d think that a trained cus­tomer ser­vices oper­a­tor would know that SMPT and an ISP are dif­fer­ent things. (If you don’t happen to be famil­iar with those terms, mixing the two up is akin to mis­tak­ing a tube of tooth­paste for pop­u­lar film actress Tilda Swinton.)

Posted at 9pm on 07/08/03 by Jack Mottram to the misc. category.
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  1. erk. that sounds a bit shit. I was just think­ing of phon­ing orange, too. I’ll see if i can get the upgrade first, shall I? Before I start tinkering.

    Oh and is yr text work­ing? Talk geek tomor­row or something.

    Posted by Donna at 12am on 08.08.03

  2. Aye, text is work­ing (hilar­i­ous Catch 22 - I needed a SIM update to enable SMS, but I couldn’t get it because my SIM was full, but I needed the SIM update to delete old messages…)

    The tech sup­port are awful. I now have email set up, but only after three folk incor­rectly told me I needed to sign up with a dialup ISP first… MMS doesn’t work at present, and I’m still trying to dialup to the inter­web via Blue­tooth (so I can sit in Tchai Ovna work­ing and piss off the hippies!)

    Posted by J-Mo at 11am on 08.08.03

  3. can anyone tell me how to get mms enabled on my orange phone

    Posted by jonny at 10pm on 24.12.03

  4. Thats SMTP, not SMPT (it stands for Simple Mail trans­fer Protocol)

    Per­haps we should look at wiping your feeble brain?

    Posted by youngerpants at 3pm on 18.02.08

  5. Yeah, a typo in the post com­pletely inval­i­dates my com­plaint. Sheesh.

    (I really do wonder what moti­vates people to com­ment on five-​year-​old weblog posts some­times. And what moti­vates me to reply!)

    Posted by Jack Mottram at 2pm on 20.02.08

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