GoodBye its been a fun 10 years using Orcon

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DeepBlueSky

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#119516 4-Jun-2013 13:03

Bye guys and thanks to the Orcon team who helped out with Genius. I called up the accounts team yesterday and I'm on a 30day count down from last Thursday.

Most of the years I had Orcon I had no issues. Then I moved to Genius, 200GB internet was great until I changed to unlimited internet for the free NZ calls this made the internet slower. Added to this the phone (VOIP) was always dodgy for me this got a little better with assistance but was never right, hearing yourself 1/2 a sec delayed missing words / detail and problems with noisy environments causing dropouts, gave my wife and me issues when talking with family I was hen picked about this all the time.

Genius is a great idea I just think it needs UFB to work and be on a proper data plan no big buckets that everyone downloads from.

I won't be getting UFB in my area within the next couple of years, so when a door knocker told me about 100Mb connection 150GB data and real phone for around the same price as Orcon I signed up with Vodafone (TelstraClear) to their WarpSpeed bundle.

Anyway good luck guys and thanks for the service.

PeterReader

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#830452 4-Jun-2013 13:03

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quentinreade

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#830719 4-Jun-2013 21:18

Sorry to see you go. Hopefully we'll be able to hook you up again in the future (for another 10 years!) - but thanks for the comments, and for your custom :)

Comms chap

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DeepBlueSky

547 posts

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#831134 5-Jun-2013 16:54

Thanks Quentin, this was not an easy choice to move.

n4

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#831161 5-Jun-2013 17:56

DeepBlueSky: I won't be getting UFB in my area within the next couple of years, so when a door knocker told me about 100Mb connection 150GB data and real phone for around the same price as Orcon I signed up with Vodafone (TelstraClear) to their WarpSpeed bundle.

I was wondering how they would deliver 100Mbps without UFB. Keep forgetting about the cable network you have down there... nice if you can get it.

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