Three iPhone Carriers That Make AT&T Look Like a Deal
When Steve announced the iPhone 3G on stage at WWDC, one of the more interesting tidbits was the mention of a locked-in maximum price of US$199/US$299 in every launch country. But if you listened closely, you would have heard the key qualifier: “almost every country.” Some deviation from the U.S. price is unavoidable, which is why Steve hedged his statement, but users in three countries in particular–Canada, Belgium, and Spain–are getting taken out back and walloped, each in their own special way.
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I was interested in an iphone (in quite a big way!) until the fact that three are not doing the iphone. i hate the fact that if you do want to buy the phone outright, its like $720.
australia has horrible data plans and the only carrier that does have a decent one doesnt have the iphone.
telstra is a rip off at something like $1 per meg pay as you go, vodaphone is like $69 a month not including the payments for the phone (another $8 a month) with like 200mb of data with charge rates through the roof if you go over, and optus has a fairly bleh deal of $49 cap with 200mb of data or something.
its all crap. not a single deal is good value for money, and it feels like a cash grab from all 3 available aussie vendors.
bring on the iphone to three, imo.
ps: the fact i can buy a jailbroken iphone 3g from china or europe and it is still cheaper even including shipping than walking into a local optus store and buying one out right shows there is something wrong with the price australians are being charged for such a device.
That’s nothing, check out the prices from Telstra in Australia. Their standard plan come with 5mb (yes Megabytes, not Gigabytes) of data. Imagine how quickly that’ll get used just using the GPS!