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Thread for current O2 customers who want an iPhone

Nicolasdec said:
Free on o2. great phone BTW.
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Cool. I've got the N80 right now but have never tried tethering it before due to O2's rather painful data costs. The N95 seems like a logical next step (bar the iPhone). I really wish Nokia designed pretty phones though, they used to be the most stylish but now they're best hidden away from sight. :(
 
Spanky Deluxe said:
So if I upgrade to an 18 month contract with some Nokia or something and then activate an iPhone I'll just transfer to the 18 month iPhone contract with no penatly?
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That's the theory, certainly. The call centre staff are all having their formal training next week, so I should imagine things will have solidified more by then. They seemed relatively informed when I called - all things considered, and they mentioned that they'd had lots of calls.

-Leemo
 
Leemo said:
That's the theory, certainly. The call centre staff are all having their formal training next week, so I should imagine things will have solidified more by then. They seemed relatively informed when I called - all things considered, and they mentioned that they'd had lots of calls.

-Leemo
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Excellent!! The iPhone has suddenly become a whole lot cheaper to me then. :) (fingers crossed)

Edit: One thing I'd be really interested in is what does "Special roaming rates with ITS" mean. I mean the standard ITS is a pretty rubbish deal and there's no mention of data. I'm still hoping that iPhone users will get unlimited data when roaming in countries with iPhone enabled networks. I doubt it'll happen but one can always dream.
 
From what I can make out, if you're an existing O2 customer (like myself) and you want an iPhone, you have to use the iPhone tariffs.

I doubt they'd just let you transfer your current deal over to the iPhone.

Hope I'm wrong though.
 
ynnoj said:
From what I can make out, if you're an existing O2 customer (like myself) and you want an iPhone, you have to use the iPhone tariffs.

I doubt they'd just let you transfer your current deal over to the iPhone.

Hope I'm wrong though.
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That's fine with me. The current slew of O2 tariffs offer sod all data. Even the £55 tariff would be much less than what I pay now. I don't go over the minutes or texts use so I'm paying about £50 a month in data. I'd be interested to know what O2 are going to do data-wise with their 'normal' tariffs.
 
Spanky Deluxe said:
That's fine with me. The current slew of O2 tariffs offer sod all data. Even the £55 tariff would be much less than what I pay now. I don't go over the minutes or texts use so I'm paying about £50 a month in data. I'd be interested to know what O2 are going to do data-wise with their 'normal' tariffs.
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The iPhone tariffs on offer are pretty weak. I text a lot more than I make calls, so I'm not sure whether 500 will be enough for me. At the moment I'm paying £35 for 600 mins & 1000 texts. That being said I am tempted. I could always just use my current SIM, and suffer by not having Visual Voicemail.

Didn't O2 say all their tariffs would have unlimited data starting Oct 1st?
 
but surely visual voicemail will become active no matter what O2 sim you use?? They can't limit a feature like that based on a tariff - surely it must either be 'on' or 'off' for all O2 contracts and then use determined by the device (i.e. does the device support it)
 
Leemo said:
Regardless of how long you've had your current contract apparently you'll be able to switch over your contract to an iPhone one. I guess the reasoning is your still tied in for 18 months and the phone isn't being heavily subsidised by the tariff in a traditional sense.
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I called today and was told they'd let me out of my contract 3 months early because I had a high tariff already but I can't just upgrade my phone and tariff to the iPhone ones.

I disagreed and got transferred through to somebody else and got told exactly the same thing.

Like to know what the truth is!
 
nomad01 said:
I called today and was told they'd let me out of my contract 3 months early because I had a high tariff already but I can't just upgrade my phone and tariff to the iPhone ones.

I disagreed and got transferred through to somebody else and got told exactly the same thing.

Like to know what the truth is!
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If this is true im going to be so angry.... The only reason i stayed with o2 was because I wanted an iPhone. My contract ran out on the end of July, I was going to switch to Vodafone (They gave me a better deal and a nokia N95) but then i read all the rumors that the iphone is going to be with o2. so i stuck with o2. Now i cant get an iphone and im stuck with O2. Im paying £269 for the phone, I sould be aloud to do what I want. AHHHH this has made me angry. :mad::mad:
 
I too today were surprised by the outrageous tariffs. The £35 in particluar is disgusting for a non-subsidised phone. However, didnt AT&T offer their existing customers the chance to keep their current tariffs and pay a small amount extra for unlimited data? Now if o2 were to offer option to do that with a charge somewhere between £5 - £10 I definitely get myself one. Otherwise the iPod Touch is looking better as well as the free upgrade im due from o2 in December, by which time the k850i from Sony Ericsson will be out and their past few phones in that series have been amazing.
 
If that is true then the tariffs do get to be a little ridiculous. My guess is that O2 are giving us the rates they would normally give with a subsidised phone but are giving the money we'd usually get in savings to Apple in the form of revenue sharing. Basically O2 don't lose their profits and instead of us getting the gain, Apple does.
 
As an existing O2 business customer the O2 website says that you can't keep your existing number if you get an Iphone.

So if you want to keep your number you would need to transfer (PAC code) your number out of O2 to say a PAYG sim on Orange etc, then transfer back in on a new contract.

My contract is up on November 11th with O2, might go PAYG or the 30 days notice Simplicity tariff and wait out until Iphone Rev B (3G, iChat AV).

As a contrast to the O2 Iphone prices, take look below at the cost of a 3G HSDPA modem for your MacBook/PowerBook.

I just got a 3G HSDPA USB modem with Three for free (normally £49, used old PAYG Three account discount) on a 18 month £15pm (inc Vat) tariff for 3GB per month with extra MB at £0.10, works well with my MacBook Pro. I signed up via Quidco.com for £55 cashback as well.

Three have 90percent 3G (384Kbps) coverage and are rolling out HSDPA 2.8/3.6Mbps.

Vodaphone 3G has 80percent coverage and have 3.6Mbps HSDPA all over the place with 7.2Mbps HSDPA rolling out in London.

Vodaphone is £25pm for 3GB per month plus cost of modem (free for 3.6Mbps USB) £49 for 7.2Mbps USB or Expresscard.

My old Vodaphone data contract was £43pm for 1GB fare usage!

Both Vodaphone and Three officially support the Mac and their 3G sims work fine in other 3G devices so an unlocked 3G Iphone would probably work.

If you only want Web, FTP, Ichat and Skype Three is fine, they do block some ports like Slingbox and VPNs are reputed not to work.

Vodaphone appears to restrict VoIP but works with VPNs, they also seamlessly switches between 3G/2G network, which is good on the train.
 
The iPhone in the US allowed you to "upgrade" your existing plan with data. Will they be doing this here?

For example, I have been with O2 for 3 years now, and my contract is up at the start of november, the 8th I believe. Because I have been a loyal customer, I am on £20 pm for 500 mins and 500 texts. Will they allow me to add unlimited data to my plan, for £10 pm or whatever, and keep my minutes/texts and use the iphone??
 
I'm interested to see what information will be available once the staff training at o2 has been completed, unfortunately at the moment it appears they know less than we do.

Heres hoping they let us existing customers keep our tariffs and upgrade to the iphone rather than pay for the nots so reasonably priced tariffs listed on their website. :(

O2 have always been good to their loyal customers lets not see them drop those standards now due to pressure from Jobsy.
 
DarkNetworks said:
I wanted an iPhone but that was a few minutes ago before I secured my Blackberry deal with O2. 269 is just way ridiculous for a "phone", IMO.
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Does O2 actually offer a Blackberry? Couldn't find one on the website. Could you post a link please? Also, what terms did they offer?
 
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