Sam - MacAmbulance wrote on 10/6/09 at 12:16

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>http://shop.o2.co.uk/update/internet.html

I have an interesting scenario which I'm keen to see the results 
of. I have a first gen iPhone and a contract with O2 -- but I 
bough the phone separately. So I have the internet bolt-on 
already rather than the iPhone plan.

I'm curious to see whether the new OS will let me use tethering 
or not. This will depend on a lot of things but I can use it 
currently in another phone, and occasionally use the short-lived 
app Netshare (which hardly ever seems to actually work despite 
my putting all the right settings in).

So it might be that the way to go is to get a contract with the 
internet connection -- then again, you're looking at a similar price.

With O2, by the way, if you have a contract, don't buy a new 
handset and ring up at the end saying 'well, I can't really 
afford it any more' they will often throw discounts at you, 
especially if you can specify a rival carrier plan that would 
suit your needs perfectly. I discovered this by accident when I 
was paying 20 a month but would get about the same minutes and 
texts I used on PAYG for about a tenner. They simply said 'ok, 
we'll discount the 20 by ten pounds a month and if you don't 
have a new handset, give you a 50 quid discount'.

But you have to be ready for them to call your bluff! that's why 
dropping to PAYG is the less dangerous one than going elsewhere 
-- you can always bounce back up.

having done this for about three years now, I'll probably buy 
the new set-up outright and then haggle again at contract's end 
so it's not a continous thing on my record.


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