Good news for iPhoners across the pond: you’re about to get more for your money. Mobile phone operator O2, Apple’s exclusive iPhone partner in the UK, announced this morning that it would be restructuring its rate plans effective February 1st, including those for iPhone customers.
Subscribers to the £35/month tariff will get three times the minutes and more than twice as many SMS messages per month for the same price, while users of the current £55/month plan will have the option to go down to a £45/month plan, with the same amount of minutes and texts, or reach for the sky with the new £75/month tariff, which includes 3000 minutes and 500 texts a month. And, of course, iPhone customers will continue to get free unlimited data and free access to The Cloud of Wi-Fi hotspots.
Hey, AT&T, how about a price break and some Wi-Fi access over here, hmm?
[via iPod Observer]
This is indeed great news from O2 and no doubt spurred on by the lower than hoped for sales numbers.
For all of you thinking the Cloud Wifi access is a great deal, consider this... I live and work in central London (Soho) and I'm yet to find a single 'The Cloud' wifi hotspot. A friend found one, but the signal was so weak, it was unusable!
Not O2 or Apple's fault, but they would be better off dropping the deal with The Cloud and reducing the price of the contract further.
Thats odd. Try walking up to oxford st or tottenham court road where I get a signal all the time on the bus. Or head over to bank or cannon st which are part of the city mile. I'm getting one at the moment at chancery lane and get them all the time.
Maybe you need to get out more :-)