Orate ltd was established in Autumn 1999 as a consultancy to telecoms carriers and resellers, exploiting the knowledge base of the company's founder and director - Richard Atkins - who had worked previously at director level in multi million carrier companies, and previously in international trading companies.
As a result of an early project for the Russian Space Agency, Richard's mobile phone bill was very high due to the cost of "roaming". The initial reaction was to whinge, but rapidly the consultancy mindset kicked in: what was the alternative? This was soon found: using prepaid or pay as you go SIMs for each country visited.
Several people were told, resulting in several orders! A new business side to Orate was born, and a few months later the webshop started life. Over time, the product range has increased. We offer a range of prepaid or pay as you go SIM cards for some 50 countries as well as a pay as you go global roaming SIM with superb rates.
When the telecoms bubble burst, the focus of the company changed - it had to, some of our clients no longer existed ("our consultancy must have been good!" laughs Richard). Orate now does work for a variety of sizes of companies, and the poacher has turned gamekeeper.
Orate also acts as distributor for some products and services, which it sells through third parties.
Orate also provides a branded version of its web shop to other companies, handling product management, order handling and payment processing. |
