Comments on: Apple attempts blackmail with its Irish Staff

By: Lynda

Lynda — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:02:03 +0000

Can you put an o2 sim you already have on bill-pay into the free phones and carry on your original price plan or do you have to sigh up and pay o2 a fortune extra every month?

By: shane

shane — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:45:45 +0000

whats the fuss about? If someone doent want their iPhone give it to me, i would be happy to sign the dotted line for them. Anyway, its O2 that are prob making them do that.

By: hacker

hacker — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:41:42 +0000

@paul@yougetitbalk.com: i could not agree with you more. way to attrack hits, paddy.

now let’s see who gets fired for sharing apple internal info…

By: Peter121

Peter121 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:22:04 +0000

Its a shame that people get taken in by the behaviour of apple/sony et al.
They like to make a big thing of all their corporate dictates. I am convinced they do this to make you want the product more. when people realise that when htc bring their version of the i-phone out nobody would buy the apple version with all the baggage that comes with it. 2.5g/ edge its outdated.

By: paul@yougetitbalk.com

paul@yougetitbalk.com — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:03:06 +0000

The employees getting the iphones are getting a discount on the monthly fee they have to pay o2 – 30 per month.

Great title on this post – there would have 4 comments if it said ” Apple gives iphones to staff” . A career as a subeditor beckons Pat.

By: Keith Robinson

Keith Robinson — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:55:29 +0000

On the other hand …. phones can be tracked on networks based on unit hardware serial number, phone number, and MAC address.

By: Keith Robinson

Keith Robinson — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:49:39 +0000

OK u get a iphone given to you by the company that makes them and you are asked to only use the carrier that they have licensed to sell them…. and the problem is?
I don’t see how this is blackmail …… i mean you are an employee of the company as part of your employment agreement you would sign a policy saying you would abide by company policy…you signed you are being given equipment…same as software

By: matthew

matthew — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:54:18 +0000

Well there irish so its gunna HAVE TO BE IRISH TO BE LEGIBLE bloddy idiots the only reason the phones are on O2 is cuz O2 is the only mobile network with the capacity to succesfully have more than 25% of the population of the uk on 3G or edge at once you morons

By: Cla

Cla — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:59:43 +0000

I think that O2 might be aware if the phone is used on other networks when there is an IMEI check for theft.

Some countries in Europe (Italy and Germany, if I remember correctly,maybe France and/or Austria) have a national cross-operator DB of IMEIs of stolen phones, so that if you report the lost IMEI to your carrier the phone won’t work on any network on that country. (sadly no global EU initiatives)
I don’t know if this applies to Ireland.

So maybe when the phone registers to a network, the operator queries the database with , and maybe (probably) other operators (like O2) might then know that the phone with IMEI X is on network Y.

That, as i explained, wouldn’t work abroad.

This might be how O2 may know if an iPhone (i call it iCabin ) is working on other networks.

By: John

John — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:12:46 +0000

Pat your right to a point, but they are getting a free iPhone in the deal.

Not sure i would use the word BlackMail, and I hate to agree with Twenty Major but….

2. I understand that each iPhone can be uniquely identified and tracked via a unique iPhone identification

That sounds like a privacy issue, are they tracking private phone calls, data – text messages, it most lightly does not mean this, but it is phrased in a very threating manner…