On 5 Jul 2007, at 08:33, Christopher Woods wrote:
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.
I didn't read the contract, but i understand that flat-data-plans are
a pre-requisite for the contract. (and why a number of the networks
couldn't compete, i suspect. That and branding.)
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!)
Yeah. I'm also a tmo switcher (from orange) and frankly was rooting
for them. I'd be happier to pay a horrendous upgrade fee and 2yr tie
in with tmo than switching to o2.
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)
how'd they do that? they'd need a contract with Apple. Right now, att
have a 2 yr exclusivity contract with apple in the US. expect the
terms to be the same or incredibly similar in the UK.
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
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