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The article goes on to say that this is some sort of new record for a British mobile 'phone launch.
How many iPhones were sold by o2 on the first day of sale? I can't find an actual figure.

Mark

The PAYG tariffs are shocking for Orange.

Compared to the O2 tariffs the phone is more expensive and you get less per month for your money (including 250Mb limit on data).

Ermmm...

Can someone explain this to me...

On Orange PAYG for the iPhone you get various different benefits for £10, £20 and £30.

e.g. 300 texts - 600 texts - unlimited texts.

Or you have the option of toppnig up £50 and getting the same benefits as the £30 top up plus you get £10 off the iphone?!

So I spend £20 more and get £10 off the iPhone?! How does that work?

I wonder how good Vodafone iPhone sales will be.
I had an email from them yesterday saying they'd been testing iPhones and their network has better down load speeds than Orange and O2 (true?)

That really can't be corroborated until Vodafone starts selling the handsets and the general public can put the claim to the test, can it?

Mark

It was probably backed up by a disclaimer stating that the test was done in a Faraday cage that contained a single hard wired Vodafone antenna.

... or something.

Orange has vastly superior 3G coverage in the UK

This is hopefully working out in the "O2 will start giving iPhones away on silly-cheap contracts..." master-plan of mine

Thanks but that's not what I was asking about.

My point was you spend an extra £20 a month on PAYG and the only reward you get is £10 off the price of the phone.

No doubt part of the popularity of the phone on Orange is the fact Orange don't cut you off if you pay your bill 3 minutes late and then send some law breaking debt collection firm onto your ass 48 hrs later. In fact Orange are the most reasonable as far as collections go. T-Mobile somewhere in the middle with Chodafone and O2 being the worst.

I was hoping Orange to be cheaper tbh. If they had the right package and the right price, they would probably have gotten me as a contracted customer...Current;y I'm PAYG with them spending about £8/month

IIRC in last weeks PC Pro podcast, they spoke to o2 who said that the prices are set by Apple which is why they couldn't offer retention deals on the iPhone. It would go some way in explaining the near identical Orange contracts.

Yeah. I was hoping they'd be able to offer extras or freebies, or some way to modify the basic, apple-set contracts.