O2 Ireland announce iPhone 3G
O2 have announced their iPhone 3G pricing packages
“The 3G device will be available in an 8GB model and a 16GB model.
The 8GB iPhone 3G will cost €49 on the €100 monthly iPhone tariff, €99 on the €65 tariff and €169 on the €45 tariff.
The 16GB iPhone 3G will cost €129 on the €100 monthly tariff option, €169 on the €65 tariff and €299 on the €45 tariff ”
Looks very good, hopefully the minutes packages will be changed also.
Unfortunately O2 haven’t taken any steps to remove the data cap.
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Yeah looks good enough shame about the data cap
Pity about the data cap, but it’s a vast improvement on the previous prices.
Pity about it being locked down to O2. What’s the success rate of getting the phone to work on other operators? I’d rather stick with 3 if I could.
Looks okay, but the data cap is a major disappointment. Seriously.
16GB version @ 45 euro/month = Euro 299
Their site says Euro 229.
Didn’t Jobs say it wouldn’t retail over $199 anywhere? Surely €169 is more than $199…
Did Steve not say the 16 gig 3G Iphone was going to sell at a maximum of 299 dollars thats 197 euro. How are O2 ireland getting away with this new rip off with differing prices because of tarriffs, surely this can not be allowed and do apple know O2 Ireland are going against Steve?
299 euro equals 462.0148 dollars this is not what Steve said yesterday.
O2 should not be allowed to release the iPhone here, full stop, until they have a compliant pricing plan and tariff in place. No matter how you slice it, €299 does not equal either $199 or €199, and “datacap” does not mean unlimited.
This still reeks of Paddy Tax all over.
I have just taken this from the macrumours site from yesterdays keynote speech.
11:45 am Now on to the final challenge — affordability. Started at $599 for an 8GB iPhone, now $399. The iPhone 3G 8GB will sell for… $199.
11:45 am $299 for the 16GB — a white version of this size will be available too.
11:46 am The iPhone 3G will be available July 11th in 22 countries. The maximum price around the world is $199 USD. Now showing an ad.
It’s not great, but the BitBuzz partnership is certainly an improvement.
As for the handset price, I think it’s fairly reasonable. The $199 price that was mentioned at the WWDC was dependent on an AT&T price plan & it being 8GB, so I figure that €49 is ok, even if it is on a ludicrous price plan.
And I bet there will be no visual voicemail either…
Grrrr. I figured they’d do something stingy like this. Apple have always sold their stuff for way more in Euro than it’s priced in Dollars though. But Steve did say worldwide..
I wonder what the tariff rates will be like? At the moment they are a rip off, even when compared to other O2 plans, not to mention the much more generous O2 UK options.
Boo, I say!
Unlike other network providers around the world O2 Ireland appear to give us no $299 iPhone, no unlimited data and no visual voicemail.
Whats next from O2 for the iPhone? No 3G network services?
The handset price I can live with but the tariffs are still ridiculous. o2 are the biggest joke of a company in this pathetically non-competitive market.
From the o2 site:
* Unused inclusive minutes and texts cannot be carried over to the following month
** Data use in excess of the 1GB allowance will be charged at 2c per MB excluding roaming
*** Visual voicemail is not currently supported.
I hadn’t actually realised that you couldn’t carry over minutes or texts from one month to the next.
Even still, o2 are very much out of order contravening Apple’s pricing policy (did o2 get the device rights collectively throughout Europe, or is the Irish deal seperate to that of the UK?) - and what’s worse, we all know that we’ll probably be rushing out next month to get our hands on them anyway.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…
From what I know Gav the O2 Ireland deal was one they had to fight for, I could be wrong but I believe others tendered.
I am going to send a mail to apple about the fact they are contravening what was said yesterday and see what response I get.
I have also sent O2 a mail and cant wait to hear what they say.
I hope peole dont get me wrong I welcome the price reduction for the phone but forcing people to take out the high tarriffs to get what Jobs was on about is very greedy and to be honest another bit of bad marketing on O2 Irelands part.
Quite agree Mcawilliams. Rip-off Ireland strikes again. Shame on you, O2. It makes me want to jump ship at the earliest opportunity.
So close O2 but not good enough so for Now I keep my money and you can put price plan back up your @@@@.
Steve (Jobs) actualy said that that price is maximum 199$ with some few exception, watch the speech (free on itunes). McAWilliams unfortunatly did not provide the full quote there! Also there was no such claim about the 299$ variant.
When Steve said that, I immediatly said “Ireland - Paddy Tax” and here we go, the max price is 169€ which is about 262$.
In the UK they actualy stick to it with maximum 99£ which is 192 $.
So we pay more, get less of functions (visual voicemail) and have a data limit which is actualy stopping us from using what the phone should do (Push of god the world and everything).
Welcome to Ireland…
OK I just looked and listened to the keynote speech and Steve Jobs says that almost all 22 countries will have the 8 gig Iphone for 199 dollars, seems Ireland once again have decided to go against the grain, well what would you know!
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0806wdt546x/event/index.html has the quicktime of the speech and this cost thing appears about 1hour 40 mins in.
o2 Uk has a nice little offer….16gb @ £159 (€200) on a £35 (€44) a month package for the 18 months with all the lovely extras
600 mins
500 txts
unlimited Data niceeeeeeee
Visual voicemail
Reduced roaming
We are offered…….16gb @ €169 (cheaper) on a €45 a month package for the 18 months,sounds goon so far eh???
Now for the extras
you will be given the existing €45 tarriff according to o2 so…..
175 mins
100 txts
I Gb Data not so niceeeeeeeeee
and as of yet no news on the visaul voicemail or reduced roaming…….
So folks a cheaper iPhone,YES.a cheaper deal,certainly,if you use your phone 1 week a month and don’t mind funding the o2 coffers for the other 3 weeks with the little extras……
Hold on to your hard earned cash and push them for a better if not equal deal as with the UK…..
I know i am,could be the fact the RIM and NOKIA and even HTC have something up their sleeves esp for the x-mas market just around the corner
Still a rip-off plan pricing - compare Republic with the north of Ireland. Gosh, how could that be?
I mean, the “Yes” people have been telling me for years about how this can’t happen in the EU.
Personally, I am engaged in the age old Irish art of the Boycott. I am Boycotting the Apple iPhone on the grounds that I am denied choice of network provider.
You are right,talk with your feet,get what YOU want,with the ‘right deal’ from the right network provider,THAT IS,a provider who is customer aware and wants to “keep them for life and not just for christmas”
I’m stunned with the way people give their money away to providers without really shopping around,I’ve done it myself and it makes me mad,still paying for a phone I use-ish
I can live without the iPhone and when it comes to a price that i am willing to pay then i’ll think about it,until then as with “Techobabe”and a lot more of you NO WAY O2
Pat,
Can I ask something did you do a straight copy and paste from the O2 press release that was on their site on Tuesday morning, cause it is incredible the 299 cost for the 16 gig on the 45 euro tarriff has changed in a very sneaky way to 229 you could quite easily skip over that one.
But if it was a copy and paste it is nice to see O2 take note of what the customers are saying.
The only thing left to work out is the data cap.
Its an absolute disgrace how the price differs fom the ROI and UK. For the roughly the same price plan in ROI we get for 45 euros, 175 mins, 100 texts and we have to buy the 8GB IPHONE for 169 euros and with a data cap of 1GB. In the UK its £45 for free 8GB IPHONE, 1200 mins and 500 texts. If anyone out there, thinks that’s correct please stay hidden and if anyone agrees that this is not correct please write to your communications regulator, o2 store, local TD and complain or look for answers.