Voda UK rings up PAYG plans for iPhone 4
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UK mobile mammoth Vodafone has made the iPhone 4 available on a Pay As You Go (PAYG) basis.
An iPhone 4 16GB costs £480, while a 32GB one will set you back £570. You can also get the 3GS 8GB for £385.
Tied into the Vodafone network for 12 months, the pre-pay devices cost £20-£30 less than an unlocked version direct from the Apple Store.
Those who get one before November 2010 are offered a full year of 3G data and BT Openzone Wi-Fi access.
Be warned - these are limited to 250MB a month for 3G and 1GB a month for Wi-Fi, which can run out very quickly without a local hotspot.
Mark Bond, consumer director at Vodafone UK, said the company will introduce more options later in the year to "allow greater flexibility". ®
COMMENTS
Why would anyone go for this?
"Tied into the Vodafone network for 12 months, the pre-pay devices cost £20-£30 less than an unlocked version direct from the Apple Store."
So you've got the extra cost of prepay tariffs *and* a 12 month lockin, to save £30.
Better to pay the £30 and get a sim only tariff (from £0 per month) with no lockin.
Vodafone's data limits are now absurd
Tell me about it. I bought a Nokia N900 not too long ago on Vodafone and I was actually *offended* to see that the data policy (which, of course, was sold to me as "unlimited") had a Fair Use limit of 500MB a month. That's abut one iPlayer episode. Why, Mr Vodafone, with these data limits you are really spoiling us!
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