ASA disagrees with Orange network coverage claim

[Simon]

Orange has been forced to admit rival operator Three has the widest 3G network coverage by geographical area, after a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority.

Three's parent Hutchison disputed the accuracy of an Orange advert, which claimed its network "covers more people in the UK than any other UK operator".

Hutchison said its network covered more people, while Orange maintains its does. But the ASA said Orange's data was "calculated based on a marriage of in-house tools and recognised public domain population to location information and that the claim was capable of objective substantiation".

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359092/asa-disagrees-with-orange-network-coverage-claim

[Glenn]

Late this year, into next year, they can both claim to have the widest coverage, along with T-Mobile.

[Gary]

Ironinc as Hutchinson used to be the parent company of Orange

[nowster]

Ironic as Hutchinson used to be the parent company of Orange

The company's name is Hutchison (one N not two) Wampoa and they used to run the Rabbit "Payphone in your Pocket" network. Wags have suggested that their GSM network was called Orange as the Rabbit was a lemon.

[Technical Ben]

The company's name is Hutchison (one N not two) Wampoa and they used to run the Rabbit "Payphone in your Pocket" network. Wags have suggested that their GSM network was called Orange as the Rabbit was a lemon.

[pctech]

The company's name is Hutchison (one N not two) Wampoa and they used to run the Rabbit "Payphone in your Pocket" network. Wags have suggested that their GSM network was called Orange as the Rabbit was a lemon.

That'd be Hutchinson Whampoa then

[pctech]

Orange used to be quire an innovative and interesting company.

Had they launched Wildfire for PAYG customers I might have switched.

[nowster]

Orange used to be quire an innovative and interesting company.

Orange is now owned by France Telecom. One2One is was bought by Deutsche Telecom and renamed T-Mobile. Orange and T-Mobile are set to merge later this year.

[pctech]

They already have, its called Everything Everywhere

[Simon]

What a stupid name!

[Steve]

Someone somewhere was well paid for coming up with that name

[Simon]

I'm sure we could have done better!

[Gary]

I'm sure we could have done better!

Something somewhere in Bengal 

[Simon]

[pctech]

Mob a L'Orange

[john]

Here are the Orange company cars :

[Gary]

 Here is one of their engineers working on their massive routers