O2 Contract Pit Falls

When O2 revealed its iPhone contracts last month it promised “unlimited” across all the tariffs. O2 also mentioned the availability of unlimited data add-on plans for other phone contracts.

On the O2 website “unlimited” data is simply accompanied by a star but with no explanation other than a “fair usage policy” applies.

At the Regent Store in London on September 18th, O2 CEO Matthew Key noted that the limit was 1,400 pages a day. But it appears that the fair usage policy only allows 200MB of data transfer per month. It seems that O2 believes that 200MB of data a month is more than sufficient, although this is only 1/5 of what T-Mobile offer.

On top of this, it has also been revealed that iPhone users will be limited to just 60-hours per month of Cloud WiFi network usage.

Unlocked French iPhone

It is looking increasingly likely that Apple and Orange will be forced to sell an unlocked iPhone on France due to a French law.

According to the International Herald Tribune, French law forbids the exclusive sale of a mobile that is locked to a particular carrier, so the iPhone will be forced to be sold unlocked.

Pricing for the unlocked device has yet to be revealed but is expected to go on sale on November 29th when the iPhone ships in France.