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mckenndk: How would it work on Telecoms up and coming network
The NZ iPhone 3G will be carried by Vodafone NZ as both prepay and on contract price plans which will include, says Vodafone NZ, "great value data bundles".If the data bundles are going to be affordable enough for prepay, does that mean there's a chance the contracts won't be outrageous? Where's Paul when we really want to drill him?
Monthly Charge | £30 | £35 | £45 | £75 |
Cost of 8GB iPhone | £99 | £99 | Free | Free |
Cost of 16GB iPhone | £159 | £159 | £59 | Free |
Minutes | 75 | 600 | 1200 | 3000 |
Texts | 125 | 500 | 500 | 500 |
Unlimited Data & Wi-Fi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Visual Voicemail | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Reduced Roaming Rates | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Minimum contract length | 18mths | 18mths | 18mths | 18mths |
lugh: Interesting tidbit on a NZ Herald blog post (yes, it is the Herald so grain of salt required)...The NZ iPhone 3G will be carried by Vodafone NZ as both prepay and on contract price plans which will include, says Vodafone NZ, "great value data bundles".If the data bundles are going to be affordable enough for prepay, does that mean there's a chance the contracts won't be outrageous? Where's Paul when we really want to drill him?
(btw, isn't it a bit confusing having three separate discussion threads talking about the same thing?)
djpaubes: Back with the telecom comment...
I doubt they could legally entice people to come over to there network with the iphone. VF will have NZ exclusive rights only and no doubt it will be locked down(or at least for the first few days) so it will require a hack to run on Telecom.
Having said that I wouldnt be surprised if they cut there data plans back which are still over priced and try make it at least attractive.
Where is that 3rd Telco startup? Good time to enter I recon!
i did not think they were going to be exclusive to a particular supplier as in AU Optis are already taking orders so is there anything stopping telecom adding it to their list of handsets when their new network goes live?
djpaubes: VF will have NZ exclusive rights only and no doubt it will be locked down(or at least for the first few days) so it will require a hack to run on Telecom.
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mckenndk: i did not think they were going to be exclusive to a particular supplier as in AU Optis are already taking orders so is there anything stopping telecom adding it to their list of handsets when their new network goes live?I think Italy that was doing the non-exclusive thing as well (mentioned somewhere earlier in this thread methinks).
mikal: If America is contract only then you can bet NZ won't be anything other than contract only.If you check out that O2 link, they'll be offering prepaid or "pay as you go" for the 3G.
Damager: Was interesting watching Steve Jobs walk around on the stage announcing the release of the iphone in other countries and "New Zealand" on the big screen display, was pretty cool.
Please see link to the latest news. At this point no pricing information is available but keep an eye on the website.
http://www.vodafone.co.nz/personal/about/media-centre/2008-media-releases/apple-iphone-3G.jsp
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