can we have your milky minutes?

so we were at orange very recently (uh... a cell carrier). we were there with the intention of getting a livebox. basically, this gives you like 18 megs of internet, digital cable and a landline with unlimited calls to other fixed numbers for around 45€ a month. not bad. we also wanted to get 2 cell phones, with unlimited calls to 3 numbers (orange cells or landlines). all told about 110€ a month with a 12 month contract.

do you know of any company in the states that would turn down a customer that wants to give them $150 a month? i can’t think of one off top of my head.

however... we were told we could not have our super spiffy phones (they were really nice phones... 2 and 3.2 megapixel cameras, mp3 players, bluetooth, internet, tv, fm radio -- i think... and video calls --- all for 1€ and 9€, respectively) or our little central hub box thing that would give us our wifi internet and landline connections. why? i don’t have my carte de séjour (sort of like a green card). i told them i have my récipicée (a piece of paper they give you when you’ve started applying for you carte de séjour). not good enough.

i probably won’t get my carte for another few months. and there’s a chance that i may not get until march... or ever, for that matter. yeah... so we had to get prepay phones instead. the phones we wanted to get were like 159€ and 189€ with the prepay option.

not cool.

but they did both come with sudoku on them! i guess that a bonus. and now, if we don’t want to pay a phone bill for the month... we don’t have to. yea for not having to pay bills. :)