Apple, O2 to release PAYG iPhones this month
Pre-pay details announced
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O2 will release the iPhone 3G on a pay-as-you-go tariff on 16 September, the carrier has just announced.
The 8GB version of the phone will cost £350 - just £50 less than the 16GB model. It'll be sold by O2, Carphone Warehouse and Apple.
O2 said that the purchase price includes a year's unlimited browsing - an "excessive usage" policy still applies - after which buyers will have to cough up £10 a month for it. Or upgrade to the next iPhone, if the line continues to be refreshed annually.
Apple's iPhone 3G: on PAYG next month
Unlimited Wi-Fi is included for the first 12 months after activation too.
The handset will come with a SIM initially linked to O2's Favourite Place tariff, which is pitched at callers using their mobile from a given location - they get free calls to other O2 mobiles and UK landlines.
O2 said buyers will be able to switch tariffs - if they don't, their call time will depend on how much they top up their account each month: 500 minutes if they pay £10-14; £15-29 a month yields 1000 minutes; spending more than £30 gives unlimited minutes.
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COMMENTS
The article's misleading regarding pricing
The 'unlimited' pricing *only* relates to calling from one postcode, e.g. home. All other calls, e.g. using it as a mobile phone, cost way more.
From http://www.o2.co.uk/mobilestariffs/tariffs/paygo/talkalot
Landlines & O2 mobiles: 25p/min for the first 3 mins/day then 5p/min for the rest of the day
Other UK network mobiles: 25p/min
Text messages: 10p/message
International calls from UK: £1.50/min or buy the International Caller Bolt On
That's massively more expensive than the 35/45/75 tariffs with their included data, minutes, text and cheap international calls/European roaming.
The real laugh is the "browsing" charges at £3/Mb! To quote their smallprint: "1MB is equivalent to browsing 150-200 pages" - complete rubbish as these days most pages will load up around 100Kb, e.g. 10 pages or 30p/page.
Finally -- can't find the reference but tant pis -- unlimited data browsing is £8.50+vat (=£10) per month as a bolt on (this is the price they've quoted in the iPhone upgrade sim which all iPhone upgraders have got for their old 1st gen iPhone.
@pctechxp
You are missing the point.
Obviously there should be management. Just don’t call the deal ‘unlimited’ when there is clearly a limit. If it is 1gb call it 1gb, if it is 5gb call it 5gb. It really isn’t much to ask.
@ Dave S
erm, they're not. Try speccing SIMILAR hardware and you will see what I mean.
Plus, you get OS X - you can't put a price on reliability.
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