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The U.K. iPhone 4 Thread

mkjj said:
No other offer Visual Voicemail (i think!) which i love.
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Is this still true?


I got the iPhone 3G 16GB at launch, on the O2 £35p/m contract. When the 3GS came out I bought a 32GB one on PAYG and put my 3G contract SIM in it (and flogged the 3G handset). In december 2009 my 18 months were over, but I stayed with O2 on iPhone Simplicity £20.

My current plan for the iPhone 4 is to buy the handset on PAYG and get the Vodafone £20 SIM only contract. I'll then sell my 32GB 3GS handset ;) (which is less than a day old as I got it today as a warranty replacement for my 11month 20days old one!)

Vodafone (iPhone £20 SIM only):
12 month contract
600 minutes
300 texts
1GB data
1GB BT Openzone
Good 3G coverage
Good 3G speeds


O2 (iPhone Simplicity £15 + £5 for an extra 500MB):
12 month contract
300 minutes
Unlimited texts
1GB data
Unlimited BT Openzone/The Cloud
Crap 3G coverage
Crap 3G speeds


I peak at ~1500 texts, so the Vodafone allowance is fine. I've never seen a The Cloud WiFi hotspot, and I don't use openzone much.

@ O2: To keep me you either need to provide a better service than Vodafone, or be cheaper than Vodafone.
 
I see everyone else is pissed off with o2.
Been looking forward to updating to iPhone 4 I'm august (when my 3gs is eligible for an upgrade.)
Right now I pay £90 a month for unlimited data, unlimited texts, and about 90 hours of calltime.
I don't want to lose that.

Is there a way I can see my data usage for each month? I figure it's about 1.5 gigs a month looking at my 'revieved date' on my phone which I hve never reset since I got my phone.
 
A few of you may remember a couple of years ago, when the iPhone 3G was released, that customers who preordered from the Carphone Warehouse received their handsets on the Thursday morning, but weren't activated by O2 until Monday evening.

I set up a website at the time to provoke CPW/O2 into action, and it actually made it into a couple of national newspapers. Within hours of the story being published the phones were magically activated.

I've kept hold of the journalists details and I've sent them a lengthy e-mail regarding the new tariffs and how customers are being penalised. People are expected to pay a large amount of money for the iPhone (nearly £1000 over two years) and yet O2 are halving the number of inclusive minutes, charging for MMS and capping data. They're essentially selling us these brilliant devices and then pricing us out of being able to use them...

One of the national newspapers I've e-mailed has already come back indicating they'd definitely like to run this as a story. Let's hope the bad press O2 will receive will encourage them to look again at the tariffs offered.

Apologies for the cross-post!
 
-Garry- said:
A few of you may remember a couple of years ago, when the iPhone 3G was released, that customers who preordered from the Carphone Warehouse received their handsets on the Thursday morning, but weren't activated by O2 until Monday evening.

I set up a website at the time to provoke CPW/O2 into action, and it actually made it into a couple of national newspapers. Within hours of the story being published the phones were magically activated.

I've kept hold of the journalists details and I've sent them a lengthy e-mail regarding the new tariffs and how customers are being penalised. People are expected to pay a large amount of money for the iPhone (nearly £1000 over two years) and yet O2 are halving the number of inclusive minutes, charging for MMS and capping data. They're essentially selling us these brilliant devices and then pricing us out of being able to use them...

One of the national newspapers I've e-mailed has already come back indicating they'd definitely like to run this as a story. Let's hope the bad press O2 will receive will encourage them to look again at the tariffs offered.

Apologies for the cross-post!
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This right here is the kind of thing we need. We need
o2 to see that us, as their customers, won't take this crap.
All the newspapers need to so is enter any iPhone/o2 forum too see the reaction.
 
-Garry- said:
A few of you may remember a couple of years ago, when the iPhone 3G was released, that customers who preordered from the Carphone Warehouse received their handsets on the Thursday morning, but weren't activated by O2 until Monday evening.

I set up a website at the time to provoke CPW/O2 into action, and it actually made it into a couple of national newspapers. Within hours of the story being published the phones were magically activated.

I've kept hold of the journalists details and I've sent them a lengthy e-mail regarding the new tariffs and how customers are being penalised. People are expected to pay a large amount of money for the iPhone (nearly £1000 over two years) and yet O2 are halving the number of inclusive minutes, charging for MMS and capping data. They're essentially selling us these brilliant devices and then pricing us out of being able to use them...

One of the national newspapers I've e-mailed has already come back indicating they'd definitely like to run this as a story. Let's hope the bad press O2 will receive will encourage them to look again at the tariffs offered.

Apologies for the cross-post!
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It's already been on BBC, Guardian, Wired, and others...
 
sandyjmacdonald said:
It's already been on BBC, Guardian, Wired, and others...
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I'm aware of that. They're pretty informative pieces. The journalists I've spoken to are actually commentators who tend to go beyond the facts and will hopefully publish quite a scathing review of the changes.

I also expect them to challenge this assertion that only 3% of customers use more than 500MB per month. Both my parents have iPhones and barely use them, yet push e-mail being activated and the occasionally use of the Internet and YouTube each month puts them over 500MB.

Either way, it can't hurt.
 
flipshot said:
O2 posted in response to a comment on their blog that if you want to renew/upgrade your contract then you have to go onto the new tariffs.

Your best bet is probably to get a PAYG iPhone and see if you can get on one of the old iPhone Simplicity contracts with unlimited data why you still can.
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This is what Im doing. For £20 a month I get 1200 mins and 1200 text, with Unlimited data. To match that on the new tariffs I would have to pay a small fortune every month!
 
All complain to BBC Watchdog too. They'll grill O2 and get the standard responce that paying more for less is in the "countries" interest.

Sod O2, I'm leaving them.
 
i just hope if i buy a simplicity sim today, that i can stay on the unlimited data plan from it even after october.. gonna ring em 2nite.
 
With the monthly simplicity there is no guarantee that O2 won't change this come October; they only need to give you 30 days notice. I guess the only option is to get the 12 month simplicity one, at least then you're set for 12 months.

Unfortunately, this is not an option for me as my contract is still going. I'll be getting a PAYG, use my contract sim and let it roll on after that until I find a better deal.
 
this is my usage over three (3) iPhones. 1st, 2nd, 3rd.

Not that bad since 2007.
 

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Hi!

I live in Norway and plan to go to UK on July 3rd and stay in London for a week.
Could somebody tell me please, if I can purchase a iPhone 4 without a contract?
In that case, would it be unlocked so that I can use it with any subscription?

If it is locked, how can I get it open without having to jailbrake it?

Thanks in advance!
:apple:
 
DrizzlePistol said:
Hi!

I live in Norway and plan to go to UK on July 3rd and stay in London for a week.
Could somebody tell me please, if I can purchase a iPhone 4 without a contract?
In that case, would it be unlocked so that I can use it with any subscription?

If it is locked, how can I get it open without having to jailbrake it?

Thanks in advance!
:apple:
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You will be able to buy a phone without a contract. We don't yet know if they will be unlocked.
 
ReflexReact said:
All complain to BBC Watchdog too. They'll grill O2 and get the standard responce that paying more for less is in the "countries" interest.

Sod O2, I'm leaving them.
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I'm leaving them too. Vodafones sim only deals seem much better and I never get signal at my house with o2
 
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