Hello

I was looking on Instagram and, although I have never wanted to buy a product from any advertisement ever (I have AdBlock on all devices, even built into my router now), and I saw an ad for hey!telecom. It’s apparently a new company by Orange BE, and especially for under 26 years old, but even above 26, it seems like a good deal on paper. 20neuros for 40GB 4g a month (18 to 26 years old), and then every 3 months you get 25% more data a month for the first year.

So in year 1, after 3 months you’ll have 50gb, after 6 you’ll have 60gb, after 9 70GB and after a year 80GB, all for the same 20 euros a month (test aankoop says this appears to be the best deal on the market right now). And after that first year you retain that amount of data for however long you keep using that data plan.

Near the end of August new rules regarding mobile data and Internet minimums for “unlimited” plans, so should I wait a while and see? And what is you experience with them if you have already been a customer?

(I have already used the orange Network for mobile and was pretty satisfied with it, so the usage shouldn’t be a surprise for me)

Edit, some links

[https://www.heytelecom.be/nl](https://www.heytelecom.be/nl)

[https://www.test-aankoop.be/hightech/telecom/nieuws/hey-telecom-ook-voordelig-voor-26-plussers](https://www.test-aankoop.be/hightech/telecom/nieuws/hey-telecom-ook-voordelig-voor-26-plussers)

8 comments

  3. Edit, put some links with sources

    (Also, just genuinely interested since I have been using a quite expensive plan for a while and am not very satisfied so want to change)

  4. I got hey! since beginning july when there was a welcome deal, before the age stuff happened. I’m paying 5€ for the lowest abbo for 2 years, and yes your data doubles in a year, they even let u track that progress in the app.

    I have absolutely no regrets or experienced any problems so far. The orange network is quite great, even coverage in middle of nowhere is good

    Also hey! is from 2021, so not that new but yes, very unknown. They’re the cheapest so far for mobile abbo’s

  5. Hey is actually a subsidiary of Orange; my wife and I had both Orange subscriptions, and after seeing some ads online we switched in May to hey, as it’s at least for data quite cheaper than Orange. No problems so far, quite satisfied and looking forward to my extra 25% days in August

  6. Switched recently and it’s taking one week and counting to activate my SIM card which is a real bummer. I suspect that’s my current provider’s fault though (don’t use edpnet for mobile, it’s real bad).
    Customer support is chat only which I’m not a fan of, especially since you can’t see when it’s actually being looked at or not which can be a real waste of time. I’m sure that it’s great when it works, but it’s when you need support that you’ll notice where the price difference comes from.
    I’d say if you can handle some fuckery and back-and-forth when things don’t work (like me), it’s a good choice!

  8. Seriously considered them for combining my mobile number, mobile internet and fixed internet (via smartphone tethering) into one. 40GB at the beginning would have been doable, but what I found more problematic is that there’s a data volume overage charge of 1 cent per MB, capped at 50 Euro (meaning 5GB). I know you can disable all the automatic downloading and updating via mobile networks stuff, but it only takes one oversight on one device or one bug in a piece of software to be hit with that. You could mentally provision your data volume at 20GB less than what it really is to hedge against that, but I’d rather not. So I went with Orange Go Extreme instead (70GB for 33 Euro). It just slows down terribly after 70GB but there’s no overage fee.

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