iPhone Paddy Tax still alive and well in O2 Ireland
Its like the team the never learns at O2 Ireland
Its beyond disgraceful and they just don’t seem to give a damn about the Irish consumer on the Iphone 3GS launch.
Check the UK prepaid pricing out here
Check the Irish prepaid pricing here
Retail for 8GB iPhone 3GS
Ireland €519
UK €522.77 (Equivalent)
Packages
Ireland: free wifi roaming-Data roaming 99c a day, capped at 50mb
UK: free unlimited wifi and data usage for no cost.
Its really quite incredible, cost of purchase and ownership of the device for one year costs the Irish prepaid consumer AN EXTRA €361.35 if they use the data connection daily compared to the UK purchaser.
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Are you comparing the 8GB iPhone 3G in the UK to the 16GB iPhone 3GS in Ireland? You can’t buy an 8GB 3GS? Sorry just a little confused
Pat, you’re right to complain about O2-IE data charges but there’s a few points to make.
Firstly, I don’t know what conversion service you’re using, but €519 equates to £438.50 – less than two pounds shy of O2′s asking price in the UK (I’m assuming that when you say “8GB iPhone 3G S” you in fact mean 16GB).
Next, the ‘unlimited’ data that O2 gives PAYG iPhone customers in the UK does not come “for no cost”. Customers in the UK are forced to top-up by £10 at the point of purchase – even if they don’t intend to use O2′s PAYG SIM (i.e. if they’re are using a contract SIM).
Also, is there some kind of problem with apostrophes in your blogging software? You seem incapable of using them. “It’s” not the same as “its” etc.
Pat, not wanting to correct you here, but like Alan says, the iPhone 3GS 16Gb model in Ireland is €519, and in the UK is £440, which at Google’s rate today (Sat 20th) is €520 – so actually model prices are comparative. However completely agree with you on the day-to-day pricing, 99c/day for 50Mb is pretty crazy.
Think you need to update your post though…
Post updated
grabbed the wrong price
Damn cut and paste
Another complete ripoff for actually using the device once you’ve got it.
And still people buy the iPhone in this country. O2 have a monopoly on a product “that everyone wants” and they can charge what they like for it. That’s business.
I’ve never been able to justify the steep price O2 want for just a phone. I don’t expect that to change.
Updating my iPhone 2G with OS 3.0. I’m crossing my fingers that I can successfully manually jailbreak it.
02 are acting like many international companies in the Irish market, they are simply charging the price the market is willing to pay. There are many examples, concert tickets, even “cut price” super markets. Until people stop supporting over priced goods and services this will continue.
On friday I got a new iPhone 3GS on o2 on bill pay…..brought it home…and had no coverage on o2 in my house…
So on Monday I brought it back and got my money back. The reason I returned it was the aforementioned coverage but the minute my deal was canceled I realised I was an idiot for signing up in the first place.
I’ve been wanting an iPhone for ages, and they are a great phone, but its insane to sign up for such shit deals in order to use it. Im glad I cancelled it; I shouldn’t have supported such robbery in the first place.
Life’s too short.
Pat, not wanting to correct you here, but like Alan says, the iPhone 3GS 16Gb model in Ireland is €519, and in the UK is £440, which at Google’s rate today (Sat 20th) is €520 – so actually model prices are comparative. However completely agree with you on the day-to-day pricing, 99c/day for 50Mb is pretty crazy.
agreed, the rates are a total rip off, 99c for 50mgs and 2c per kilobyte after, so if you work on that basis, there being 1024 kilobytes in a megabyte, they are giving you a value of over 1000 euro in your 50 megabytes… that in itself is just robbery… so in effect, it is virtually impossible to go the 50megs unless you’re downloading from the app store like a mad man… so the minimum of 99c per day equates to over 350 euro spent over a year, and that’s for basically using it at a minimum, as you would, checking email or other basic things