Orange Call Abroad / "Camel" [renamed thread]

[Motel75]

Originally Posted by andy

Orange UK have launched animals name tariffs on PAYG, which they've had on contracts for a year or so.

http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/payasyougo

The option called Camel has cheap international calls to more destinations than Call Abroad, and some are cheaper now. USA and Canada are 6p/min, while several European mobiles are 10p/min, which seems unbeatable to me for direct-dialled calls (unless using the bundle option on O2 payg). UK calls are all 20p/min (undercut by the 15p Raccoon tariff)

Yep, it's a good deal. Too bad they couldn't have combined Camel and Racoon (sic), that would have been unbeatable (as it is, the Carphone Warehouse international SIM has a 15p rate, though no roaming).

I wonder if the name Camel was inspired by the CAMEL roaming/billing system?

[andy]

Originally Posted by Motel75

I wonder if the name Camel was inspired by the CAMEL roaming/billing system?

It seems unlikely, as the marketing department probably don't even know the name in a more technical context

When the original Animals contract tariffs were first rumoured (and in fact turned out to be an accurate leak), they were treated by some people for quite a while as a hoax, like an advance April Fool joke as that was the actual launch date