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Potential iPhone 3G 02 UK Customers lets make a STAND...
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Posted by: sdm_85

...People, this is serious!!

For those who have seen the new 3G iPhone tariffs you will discover the huge and completely unreasonable difference in allowances with the £30 per month and £35.

£30 a month gives you 75 Minutes 125 Texts
£35 a month gives you 600 Minutes 500 Texts

This strategy is unfair and I feel must in some way be breaking anti-competitive laws and is robbing the consumer blind.

For consumers who just want to pay £30 a month which is reasonable will be practically forced to commit to £35 a month as you would have to be stupid not to.

We need to all let 02 know that confidence; value and customer satisfaction is going to be lost.

What are your views? Lets let 02 know we are not happy!!

Posted by: ripse

ok you have a fair point. What do you suggest we do about it

Posted by: sdm_85

All complain to 02?, or maybe the Office of fair trading. you know £5 over 18 months is almost an extra £100 the cost of the new iphone! lol and only £69 differnce in the price for the 1st Gen iPhone...it is all one big con!

i wonder what the iPhone 3g 'special' PAYG tariff will bring? 50p per minute and 20 per text message.

I am hoping the PAYG will be open to all 02 sims but i doubt it! As i love my simplicity deal with 02! :-(

Posted by: ez2remember

TBH I think the iPhone is set at a fair price. £35 is quite reasonable...

You get unlimited WIFI with their hotspots and unlimited 3G data access. This alone is worth at least £5-10.

Go to any other network and you'll see it's fairly priced. I'm sorry to disagree... We are spoilt for choice. Americans will be angry reading the offers we get compared to what they have to put up with.

Posted by: sdm_85

I am not disputing the fact that you get free Wi-Fi and 3G but you get that on the £30 too, i am just pointing out that people are being lead to pay £35 as aposed to £30 as you are getting so much more, they are only able to get away with this as they have the contract to Apple.

The extra £5 does mount up to £90 plus £100 for the iphone its more expensive then when the 1st gen iphone was £169..ummm

i would be happy with 300 texts and 200 minutes for £30 that would make sense not 75 mins and 150 texts...this will incur people to run up high bills.

Posted by: nasa25

I agree while 5 quid a month is bollocks for some people, for the average person it equates to 60 quid a year, which, over the term will be 180 quid (3 years I assume). That is substancial when you think about it.

Posted by: friedbrains

i want to see the other plans from other countries...

Posted by: ez2remember

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Originally Posted by nasa25

I agree while 5 quid a month is bollocks for some people, for the average person it equates to 60 quid a year, which, over the term will be 180 quid (3 years I assume). That is substancial when you think about it.

For 18 months.

We don't have 3 years contract. 12 and 18 months contracts are common. Although 2 years do exist but very few sign up for these kind of deals.

Posted by: nasa25

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Originally Posted by ez2remember

For 18 months.

We don't have 3 years contract. 12 and 18 months contracts are common. Although 2 years do exist but very few sign up for these kind of deals.

well then the extra 5 quid per month isnt a major major concern....the way that O2 set it up, it looks like they are discouraging people from getting the cheaper plan because of the huge disparity in what you get. Looks like we really do get screwed in Canada because every carrier tries to hook you in to a 3 year term.

Posted by: ghostridr

lucky brits.. least your cell co. doesn't force you into a 2yr contract as standard as most major providers do here in the US now.

i'm a commitment phoebe and ATT is one scary potential girlfriend for me.

Posted by: nskgti23

Starting price for the 3G iphone plans in the US is 69.99 for 450 minutes 200 sms and unlimited data and we don't get free incoming calls. Additionally our networks are awful by comparison. I hate to say it but you won't get much sympathy from those of us stateside, just like I would never expect to get sympathy from someone in the UK over $4.50/per gallon petrol.... (Although I do have to drive 20 times as much with vastly lacking public transportation for most of the country)

Posted by: samab

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Originally Posted by nskgti23

Starting price for the 3G iphone plans in the US is 69.99 for 450 minutes 200 sms and unlimited data and we don't get free incoming calls. Additionally our networks are awful by comparison. I hate to say it but you won't get much sympathy from those of us stateside, just like I would never expect to get sympathy from someone in the UK over $4.50/per gallon petrol.... (Although I do have to drive 20 times as much with vastly lacking public transportation for most of the country)

It's actually more like $75 because the SMS is extra.

But for that price, AT&T is giving you unlimited mobile-to-mobile minutes, 5000 nights/weekends minutes and rollover of your left-over daytime minutes.

Posted by: nskgti23

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Originally Posted by samab

I can honestly say I use maybe 200 night and weekend minutes a month and maybe another 200 mobile to mobile minutes, most of my minutes are out of my network... Although at this point I'm considering switching to the unlimited voice plan because I got rid of my voip line recently.

Posted by: XanderMac

You get 525 extra minutes and 375 extra texts for 5 pounds! What's the problem? Thats a good deal.

Posted by: sdm_85

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Originally Posted by XanderMac

You get 525 extra minutes and 375 extra texts for 5 pounds! What's the problem? Thats a good deal.

yes it is, but on the standard 02 plan for £30 you would get what you are getting on the £35 they are taking adbatahe because its the iphone and that extra £5 equates to £90 plus £100 for the iphone and this does not make the iphone much cheaper at all!!!!