Prices are up

iPhone 5 - 16GB/£449 32GB/£599 64GB/£699 (all unlocked price)
(For comparison, a 16GB S3 is about £480)

What will be interesting to see is if the phone providers bump up their 4G phone package's data allowance in line with the new 4G speed capabilities. After all, it's pointless being able to download stuff much, much faster if you still have the same stingy allowances per month.
Surely, they've got to start thinking of providing truly unlimited data (with a realistic fair-use clause, if any), or at least a decent amount so that you can download a few movies or streaming TV every week. Otherwise, I can't see the point of 4G to be honest - it's all just theory if you can't actually use it to its full potential without getting a hefty data bill at the end of each month for going over your tiny allowance.

I think the 'international' iPhone 5 supports all the LTE frequency bands that are currently in use. This is equally true of pretty every other LTE phone that Samsung etc. are making. If one of the UK carriers decided to use a band that's not in use elsewhere for some reason (and bear in mind there are only two major carriers left and four available 'in use elsewhere' frequency bands for them to pick from) they wouldn't have any handsets from any manufacturer to offer, or they'd have to get somebody to make one specifically for them, which then couldn't be used in any country other than the UK. You can never say the carriers won't make a dumb decision, but I think it would be exceptionally dumb even for them.

Going by what this page, A1429-CDMA will support lots of bands (2100MHz, 1800MHz, 850MHz, 700cMHz, 1900MHz) but that is a non-GSM phone so is pretty much a brick over here in places where there is no 4G coverage. The Eurasian iPhone (A1429-GSM) supports 2100MHz, 1800MHz and 850MHz. The Ofcom auction is for 800MHz and 2600MHz.

Oh great. The source I read got them the wrong way round .

Yeah, from that EE are going to be the only people doing an LTE iPhone 5 in the UK.

The only way I can see anyone else getting in on it without a hardware upgrade is by buying some bandwidth off of EE, and I can't exactly see that one happening.

Went to the Orange shop in Harrogate this morning and paid £25 (as a pre-payment) to put myself in the queue for the black 64GB iPhone 5

What's this talk of 'international' iPhone 5?
Sorry to be asking any dumb questions, but I've been really busy with work the past couple of days and I've not had any time to properly catch up on all the news.

Mark

So are you going to use EE?

Mark

Went to the Orange shop in Harrogate this morning and paid £25 (as a payment) to put myself in the queue for the black 64GB iPhone 5
I was apparently the first one to order so I can go anytime next Friday to pick it up

Fixed for accuracy.