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Alexia · Tue 06 Oct, 2009 20.09

cdd wrote:When this deal comes to fruition (if we have Pay as you Go iPhones) will we be able to just get any sim and stick it into our current iPhone or will we have to wait until we replace it? I rather dislike O2 as they keep sending me annoying text messages and trying to get me to meet the england rugby team

They don't to me. You must have signed up to something weird.

cdd · Tue 06 Oct, 2009 21.32

You're wrong, Alexia. These are just the plain account texts.

O2 rewards, you've earned £16.30 free calltime and it's now available to claim. Simply text CLAIM to 50202 before the end of November.

Get the most out of apps and the web by using WiFi at home or out and about. It's quicker for apps and video. Just tap the link below.

We've noticed that we have charged you for data that you didn't use when you were abroad due to a fault with teh iPhone 3.0 OS software. This will be refunded within the next 10 days as an airtime credit. We're really sorry

You have landed a guaranteed Gold surprise with 3 changes to win big. Get on your PC and enter FFA9K6 at o2.co.uk/surprises

Month 6 of your free Web and Wifi bolton is now active, terms apply.

Are just a handful of those received in the last month.

rts · Wed 07 Oct, 2009 17.14

Orange has taken delivery of the first Pre-Christmas batch of branded Orange iPhones and are apparently aiming to get phone out by end of October.

Sput · Sat 24 Oct, 2009 19.54

10th November is the day. No-one yet knows the price though!

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/b ... 888201.ece

rts · Mon 02 Nov, 2009 12.37

Orange iPhone plans unveilved. If you want a price war, you'll be disappointed.

http://interest.orange.co.uk/

iPhone will go on sale with Orange from 10 November.

Gavin Scott · Mon 02 Nov, 2009 14.34

rts wrote:Orange iPhone plans unveilved. If you want a price war, you'll be disappointed.

http://interest.orange.co.uk/

iPhone will go on sale with Orange from 10 November.

Those prices suck.

Think I'll stick to my 3000 texts and 400 x-net anytime minutes for £15.

cdd · Mon 02 Nov, 2009 14.36

They really do, don't they?

O2's PAYG prices are much better. I guess I'll put up with the textspam.

Still, we have Vodafone to wait for.

Sput · Mon 02 Nov, 2009 15.35

Gavin Scott wrote:
rts wrote:Orange iPhone plans unveilved. If you want a price war, you'll be disappointed.

http://interest.orange.co.uk/

iPhone will go on sale with Orange from 10 November.
Those prices suck.

Think I'll stick to my 3000 texts and 400 x-net anytime minutes for £15.

TSK you and your being a valuable customer. I pay o2 that for 250 texts and 75 minutes and cry myself to sleep because I daren't call anyone for fear of running out of minutes.

Gavin Scott · Mon 02 Nov, 2009 15.47

Sput wrote:
Gavin Scott wrote:
rts wrote:Orange iPhone plans unveilved. If you want a price war, you'll be disappointed.

http://interest.orange.co.uk/

iPhone will go on sale with Orange from 10 November.
Those prices suck.

Think I'll stick to my 3000 texts and 400 x-net anytime minutes for £15.
TSK you and your being a valuable customer. I pay o2 that for 250 texts and 75 minutes and cry myself to sleep because I daren't call anyone for fear of running out of minutes.

When you add the 5 x Orange "free numbers" to other mobiles I don't think I've gone beyond the basic tariff by more than a quid.

In a bizarre way I have the iPhone to thank for that deal. I rang customer services when my contract expired and told them I was going to O2 unless they could persuade me otherwise.

The idea of dumping this deal to take a flashy handset doesn't add up to me. I'd lose any loyalty rewards as you're considered a "new" customer.

What a gyp.

DVB Cornwall · Mon 02 Nov, 2009 17.06

According to Rory Cellan-Jones on Twitter, Orange are reviewing their proposed Wifi Allowance afer 'concerns'.

cdd · Mon 02 Nov, 2009 18.21

That reminds me, why have the regulators still not taken a firm hand with mobile (/broadband/telephone) companies who say things like

mobile internet browsing: unlimited*
* fair use policy of 750mb/month applies

Just how is that kind of advertising acceptable? Why not just say "mobile internet browsing: 750mb/month"?

It's one of those things that you'd think would be short lived until it was stamped out, but like Hard Drives "1GB = 1000000000 bytes" it looks like it's here to stay.