Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but thought I'd update with Oranges current policy on swapping out to micro-sims.
Basically, after having an Orange shop CS guy call their CS team and being surprised himself that you have to pay the extra £10/month for the iPhone 'unlimited data' bundle (that's a joke as it's only 750Mb
), trying to ring them myself to get the same answer, I finally managed to email them today (although I discovered their email form doesn't work as it has no send button, but managed to get an email address from their Complaints PDF document) to complain and got a phone call from a guy in the UK CS team within 5 minutes!
I was upfront about using my regular big sim cut down and told him that I'd been advised by Apple when getting my faulty handset replaced that not having an 'official' micro-sim might cause problems (as it's cut close to the outside long edge of the metal bit on mine too) but as I'm already paying £5/month for a 500Mb data allowance that I haven't gone near to using up, that I'm not prepared to pay an extra fiver on top for 250Mb extra I won't use. He tried to sell me the BT Open Zone bit too and was telling me how the iPhone is constantly connected and so uses more data, but I politely told him I don't need BT bit and I know about the constant connection and still don't require the extra 250Mb of data either! He was actually very understanding and looked at trying to reduce my monthly tariff cost to incorporate the extra £5 data cost, but as I'm on an old tariff it couldn't be bettered.
Still, he was happy to let me stay on the tariff/data bundle I have now and to carry on using my cut-down sim. It's not ideal in the event I have to go back to Apple again, but at least I don't have to pay the extra.
Just thought I'd post so that others know if they call Orange that they probably won't budge on sending out micro-sims without you agreeing to pay the higher data bundle cost (although unless you're a heavy user, I can't see that many people needing it to be honest!).
Andy