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Viking325i: The 3G works on prepay sims, but its not available on prepay. You cant get it out the door of a vodafone shop without either signing a plan, or doing a dodgy deal. I am hoping that one day Vodafone will offer a data plan on prepay, as an addon, much like txt2000 & bestmates, but who knows.Where do you plan on getting the iphone from? i'd be interested in getting one to use on prepay too.
allsteve:Viking325i: The 3G works on prepay sims, but its not available on prepay. You cant get it out the door of a vodafone shop without either signing a plan, or doing a dodgy deal. I am hoping that one day Vodafone will offer a data plan on prepay, as an addon, much like txt2000 & bestmates, but who knows.Where do you plan on getting the iphone from? i'd be interested in getting one to use on prepay too.
OK, I call BS. You can buy an iPhone, with no plan what so ever. What do you think those people who flew over to NZ were doing? Signing up to a 2 year NZ contract to fly back to the UK / US with. You pay full price but you can just buy the phone.
The problem is with the APN.
allsteve:Viking325i: The 3G works on prepay sims, but its not available on prepay. You cant get it out the door of a vodafone shop without either signing a plan, or doing a dodgy deal. I am hoping that one day Vodafone will offer a data plan on prepay, as an addon, much like txt2000 & bestmates, but who knows.Where do you plan on getting the iphone from? i'd be interested in getting one to use on prepay too.
OK, I call BS. You can buy an iPhone, with no plan what so ever. What do you think those people who flew over to NZ were doing? Signing up to a 2 year NZ contract to fly back to the UK / US with. You pay full price but you can just buy the phone.
The problem is with the APN.
Viking325i:allsteve:Viking325i: The 3G works on prepay sims, but its not available on prepay. You cant get it out the door of a vodafone shop without either signing a plan, or doing a dodgy deal. I am hoping that one day Vodafone will offer a data plan on prepay, as an addon, much like txt2000 & bestmates, but who knows.Where do you plan on getting the iphone from? i'd be interested in getting one to use on prepay too.
OK, I call BS. You can buy an iPhone, with no plan what so ever. What do you think those people who flew over to NZ were doing? Signing up to a 2 year NZ contract to fly back to the UK / US with. You pay full price but you can just buy the phone.
The problem is with the APN.If thats the case I'll go and get one first thing tomorrow. However I was told from the Vodafone shop I was at that they would not sell it without some form of plan. If that is what the other stores are doing or not doing, I dont know, however thats what I was told at the closest store to my work. Maybe he is miss-interpreting what he should be doing, but that is what he said so its far from BS.
So how did the online store work? Did you have to sign up to a contract on purchase of the retail price of the phone?
So how did the online store work? Did you have to sign up to a contract on purchase of the retail price of the phone?
nzbullet: Guys,
I can confirm at this stage though, there is NO 3G data or GPRS data on the new iPhone if you are on Prepay. It simply doesn't work. You can use wi-fi but that is all the data you will have.
nzbullet: Guys,
I walked into Vodafone on Colombo St in Christchurch, I asked them if it was locked to the network if I purchased it outright. They said no. I asked them for a white 16GB iPhone and as I was in a rush asked them if I can activate it myself. They said yes, and within 5 minutes of walking in, I walked out with a new iPhone.
I activated it with iTunes myself, and just to check that it was unlocked, threw my old O2 sim card in. I got service on the O2 sim card (albeight roaming on Voda's network) which proved that yes it is unlocked.
There seems to be a lot of BS around of how Voda won't let you buy it on Prepay, or pay the full retail price. I am not really sure where people are getting this from. You do need to be careful who you speak with at Vodafone though, they had/have a tent set up in the square in Chch and I new more about the iPhone than the staff that were demonstrating it. One of them even tried to tell me that if I didn't have a plan then I couldn't access the AppStore AT ALL, not even on wi-fi, I mean pleeeease!
With regards to getting GPRS to work, there is a file which has already been modified by some (including me) which contains the Vodafone specific APN details for 3G, it is a special APN for the iPhone which they have used. I have changed that so it now contains the normal Voda APN as well, however at this stage I/We cannot get it onto the iPhone, but if it can be figuered out, and once the Dev team release their jailbreak it should be easy, then you should be able to use GPRS Data with Prepay on the iPhone.
I can confirm at this stage though, there is NO 3G data or GPRS data on the new iPhone if you are on Prepay. It simply doesn't work. You can use wi-fi but that is all the data you will have.
tonyhughes:Great info! Best post I have seen amongst all the BS that has been thrown around lately!
What BS is being referred to?
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