New MVNO for Orange UK: Globalcell
By Ben Robinson on Monday, September 8th, 2008 at 12:37 PM PST In MVNO, Orange
Orange UK has enabled a new MVNO to run on it’s network – called Globalcell, the service is targeted at Eastern Europeans, who are living and working in the UK. The service offers customers a SIM-only pre-paid deal, with all customer interaction being delivered in native languages, such as Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Slovak (and English).
GlobalCell is the first and only mobile operator aimed at simplifying the life of Eastern European guests and residents in this country by making the purchase, activation and use of mobile minutes easy and straightforward. We appreciate the importance of a competitively priced and easy to use mobile phone service. We offer our customers great deals on pre-paid minutes. Whether in the UK for work or simply to seek a new and better future, the GlobalCell mobile network helps our customers to realise their dreams. We deliver information directly to our customers in their own language about job opportunities, accommodation and special entertainment events. GlobalCell SIM cards can be purchased in the many shops, news stands, DVD rental kiosks and at social events serving the Eastern European community.
Orange now has a customer base of 2.5m across the MVNOs it provides a network for. If you add in Orange’s direct customers, that figure shoots up to 18.6m!
By the way, if you want to check out Globalcell’s offering, go here.
[Via: Cellular News]
Globalcell looks distinctively dodgy. What can one say about a provider that can’t even register their own domain? Never mind not listing the call prices. Speaking lithuanian or slovak is an advantage? Grow up easterners coming to UK want to lear english in a first place.
Seems that you are still learning english if you make mistakes.Globalcell is cool!polite service,clear web page,very useful for my family,just arrived to visit me.Thank you for a fantastic idea!
Excuse “me”,have you tried to enter http://www.globalcell.eu before the lunch break?Try to be objective even after couple of beer.I have just ordered 2 sims in my native language.Tell you a secret saying prices are usually under the Tariffs?!!!
Great idea and launching with matching top-up. I have just toped up for £20 got £40 which does not expire. My little sister who came to visit finds it really usefull.Thanks Global Cell!
Hello All,
I spent 12 years setting up cellular phone systems all over the world. This includes China, Korea, Thailand, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Morocco, Egypt, and many other countries. Once, I got a phone bill from Vodafone when I was working in Morocco for over £1,000 for one month on roaming. I mean just for one month! I’m really glad that GlobalCell is here, it means that I can keep in touch with all my friends/ colleagues in places like Romania and Luxembourg for a very reasonable cost, no matter where I am. Let me tell you, the price that they charge you for a call is much, much more that it costs them! They are fleecing you and hanging you out to dry.I hope that GlobalCell get bigger, we really need them!
Thanks,
Steve