To hell with Orange!

As you may recall in my posts about being offline and then getting re-connected, (with temporary dial-up), the internet connection at casa az has been a bit dodgy this past week or so.

So this morning I checked out some offers with Telefónica and found out that I can get high-speed ADSL (with free wifi router), free national calls (including 120 minutes of mobile calls per month) and a groovy-cool television offer. More than 60 channels, with the option to watch non-Spanish films and TV programmes in original version!!!

All for 45 euros a month!

And on top of that we get some sort of gift. Not sure if it’s 10 nights in a hotel or two round-trip plane tickets for somewhere in Europe.

Not sure when the change-over will happen. Apparently Telefónica will take care of cancelling the service with Orange but then I’ll probably have to wait 3-5 days for a guy to come over and hook up the TV thingy and bring the new router.

So all this nonsense with Orange has turned out to be a blessing in disguise. My friend Agustín has this same Telefónica package and he says it’s great, but we probably wouldn’t have changed servers if Orange hadn’t fucked up so badly. Anyhow, I’ll wait until the new service is up and running before I say ‘all’s well that ends well’, but it certainly sounds like a good deal.