O2 launches iPhone Ireland and pulls a fast one on customers
Again we have a large multinational carrier pulling a fast on the Irish consumer.
This time its O2 in the guise of the launch of the long awaiting iPhone.
The pricing for us poor oul Paddies bears no relation to the UK pricing, I can personally guarantee having been terminating minutes in both countries for over ten years that there is no difference in cost whatsoever.
below is the UK pricing and the Irish pricing, spot the difference?
so to summarize
If you live in the UK you get four times more minutes in your package than the Irish consumer.
We get no visual voice mail.
We get limited data
The UK gets un-metered data included.
Seriously, when is this crap going to stop?
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I totally agree, its a complete joke that they are looking to screw irish customers. I was going to get one but not with those rates. no chance.
Any chance of an arbitration play? i.e. book in UK phone and roam for free from Ireland? Surely someone could do this?
Indeed this is sad but as we all know that pricing is not cost based, it’s market based and if the Irish mobile consumer is willing to pay the kinds of inflated pricing that I see in the Irish market when I return for work and pleasure then O2 and all the others are going to keep pricing as is. Did I read some time ago that Ireland was one of the most profitable for Vodafone? Also, when you have a hot product like the iPhone and an exclusive that’s due to Apple’s policy, then you milk it for all it’s worth. Either there’s a consumer backlash or increased pricing pressure from the limited competition in the market or you you are likely to see the status quo more or less maintained.
The transparency of this rip is the worst bit – so easy to compare across both the Ireland and UK O2 site. The papers today had no mention of the rip off and the Irish times quotes a 12Gb cap – but doesn’t say that it’s 12 Gb for the year!!
the iphone really needs unmetered/unllimited data. the whole idea of an iphone with a metered data plan is pathetic.
It’s time we do something about this krap.
Anyone got any ideas?
We should rejoin the Union, solve all our problems.
Just as well I’d no intention of getting one. I really can’t understand the craze with this phone.
Disgraceful, yes, surprising no. Our local network operators are nothing if not consistent.
I knew you guys got a rough deal from Voda but I had no idea things were this bad.
o2 are mental if they think that they are actually going to get a decent take up… Surely?
Lads,
It’s all a Nokia play. O2-Ireland holds too much stock of the Nokia N95 and many of the people who were holding their upgrades until the iPhone launch will head over for a reasonably-priced Nokia N95 on O2 upgrade. Some will get the N95-8GB edition in the process. O2 shifts stock while currying favour in Helsinki. And what does the iPhone do for you anyway as an operator if it cannot pull revenue onto the network? The map-happy N95 is a revenue generator, just like the iPhone browser generates revenue. And the O2 data plan makes this point simple and easy to understand at the point of purchase.
I’m enjoying my time with a well-worn Nokia E90 and wonder how many of my friends will pay for bling that rings.
If you really want an iPhone, learn the words “jailbreak” and “bricked” or find a friend that will sort out your cravings. I don’t think O2-Ireland is trying to join the Apple fan club.
Given the amount that o2 handed over to get this deal, I very much doubt they’re doing it just to screw over Apple and to sell more Nokias.
As I said rather angrily here … o2 is correctly pricing and targeting this product towards the absolute suckers in Irish society who will lap this up, ridiculous pricing and all.