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Orange lets you get into the red

Remember when you're mum used to give you 10p to call home in an emergency? Kept us in Wham bars for years. Well now Orange has come up with the moder

Remember when you’re mum used to give you 10p to call home in an emergency? Kept us in Wham bars for years. Well now Orange has come up with the modern day solution.Unfortunately there’ll be no sloping off to the sweet shop to spend this emergency stash. It’s offering pay as you go customers a £2.50 ‘Reserve Tank’ for when pre-paid credit reaches zero. At current rates, that’s over fifteen minute’s worth of calls you can make before topping up once more.Don’t forget; you need to account for paying back the overspend when you next top-up – otherwise Orange might just send the boys round.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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