Pfft. Good things and bad things will come from this:
Good: O2 won't be able to knacker the phone by slapping their custom memory-hogging interface onto it (like they did with my lovely XDA 2i, it took me ages to clear out the crap they put on it!) O2 won't be able to slap their branding on it Bad: O2 most likely won't bring out any inclusive data plan for this, and since when did they have an EDGE network? Orange has largest European EDGE network, and T-Mobile has one too pan-Europe, but O2? Just plain old, slow, GPRS. UK iPhone users are going to have HEFTY data bills, and they're going to be pissed off with the slow browsing speed. O2 coverage is pants in quite a few more places than you'd think - including, laughably, the front room of my house in central Birmingham - so I won't be surprised when many people take their iPhones back (or break open the network lock so they can put their T-Mobile USIMs in, with all their Web 'n Walk goodness!) I'll be VERY surprised if TMob don't eventually bring out a 3G-enabled iPhone within the next 12 months and roll it out Europe-wide. It's a real missed opportunity, given that Vodafone, Orange, TM and 3 have 3G networks (the latter two running at full HSDPA speed with 3 already running at superfast speeds and TM upping its network from 1.8 to 3.6Mbps before the end of the year) This'll really annoy my Mac-loving housemate though, because he can only get Orange or Vodafone signal in his house in Cornwall, and he REALLY wants an iPhone just because it's from his lord and master, His Jobsiness :D > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Burt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 July 2007 00:00 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK > > It looks like O2 have the iPhone in deal in the bag for the UK... > http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sector > s/telecoms/article2028678.ece > > Cheers > Adam > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
