Comments on: O2 Scraps Limit on iPhone, Key Talks Deal Making

By: Alex Brooks

Alex Brooks — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:58:23 +0000

Andy,

That is a very sound point, the tariffs are horrible.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:57:27 +0000

How about increasing the crap 200 mins & 200 texts for £35 a month (it’s a joke).

By: dave

dave — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:19:08 +0000

This is great for the UK. In Germany, it’s even more confusing, because “unlimited” actually means 3 different limits depending on which plan you sign up for…

By: Graeme

Graeme — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:01:10 +0000

It’s a shame that they don’t appear to have relaxed the 200MB restriction on the equivalent data package for non-Jesusphone customers. It’d be moderately difficult to consistently hit 200MB/month on an EDGE device like an iPhone, but on something more modern with HSDPA, you could hit it very easily.

Also, O2 still don’t have any idea how to run a mobile internet service. Their definitions of acceptable uses in the terms and conditions sound like they’ve been written by a 10-year old who’s used the Internet for three weeks:

“Permitted Uses of O2 Web Bolt On are uses of your SIM Card within a handheld mobile device for the purposes of Internet Browsing and email (excluding BlackBerry® email) only.”
“Any other use of the O2 Web Bolt On will not be a Permitted Use, including but not limited to:

Use of the O2 Web Bolt On with Data Cards or Modems;

Instant Messaging,
IP Telephony,
Point 2 Point file sharing and file transfer,
VoIP (e.g. Skype™),
Video and TV streaming,
Slingboxes; and
Use in conjunction with routers.”

Taken from http://shop.o2.co.uk/boltonTerms?boltonId=6021

Use in conjunction with routers? I think it’d be a little difficult to deliver packets without them.

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