T-Mobile makes huge cuts in iPhone pricing and tariff’s
I really hope Irish iPhone fans waited as I pleaded them to for a few weeks.
T-Mobile Germany has made huge cuts already in its tariffs this week.
The 8GB iPhone normally costs 399 euro, but depending on the service plan you sign up for, you could get it for a 300 euro discount. The special prices are as follows:
249 euro iPhone with Complete S
199 euro iPhone with Complete M
149 euro iPhone with Complete L
99 euro iPhone with Complete XL
The offer is good only between April 7th and June 30th and the 16GB iPhone remains at 499 euro. The changes have not yet been reflected onT-Mobile’s site. This move to introduce subsidized iPhone pricing is interesting, in light of early beliefs that Apple prohibited the practice to avoid reducing the perceived value of the phone. For what it’s worth, we’ve heard that iPhone sales in Germany have been disappointing.
Thanks to Fergus Ryan for the heads up
Unfortuately all the legacy mobile crowds (O2, Voda, etc.) are behind the times over here. They can’t seem to make the leap to including data-type devices (I’m an ex Irish-mobile-telco employee…). Kudos to the American telcos for this at least.
They can’t grasp the fact that they need to offer the handsets with decent monthly plans to get people to use them. Behind the times unfortunately….
Anyone know if Vodafone Irl got any traction with the N95 being subsidised to compete against the iPhone?
The 3G iPhone must be on test for this kind of stock shifting to be available to walk-in customers.
It’s called greed. Unfortunately for them - and iPhone users in this country - the declining economy (see recent Wall Street Journal and FT issues about the economy shrinking) and credit contraction will take care of that.
And if you think iPhone package rates will come down - I’m still waiting for eircom’s broadband pricing to come down.
I was paying 15 dollars p.m. for a super service in San Francisco, but in Dublin….
Not all greed. They just don’t completely understand the potential benefits of offering additional services (presence, decent data plans, etc.), and the fact that users, i.e. us, will use the features more if they offer them at a decent price/level.
Look at video streaming on 3G. They’ve always scratched their head that people didn’t use it much. It’s an interesting service (I trialled it a lot) but the only time you’re ever going to use it is while bored sitting on a bus or train or something. Where’ s the only place you can’t use those sort of services? On a bus or train or something…..
When it comes to data, they can’t grasp the uses as they’ve had it easy with SMS for so long. And no, that’s not really data
Interesting promotion dates. Could be in line with a new 3G iPhone that’s rumoured to be launched around June/July.
Bernie, I think you are right about the signalling here: (1) iPhone shortage just as the hype cycle is ending? (2) Confirmation that new 3G iPhone on the way from CEO of AT&T yesterday?
(3) Price drops in Germany?
These all point to the “harvesting” stage of a product release. I for one am glad I waited. Thanks for the heads-up advice Pat.
Shame there isn’t a bigger uptake as it’s doing wonders for Oracle datadbase admins and architects in telco sector with the huge spikes in data associated with the iPhone elsewhere.
@uvox I can only imagine
It’ll be interesting to see what happens when they (i.e. decent deals on iphones, etc.) do start to take off, i.e. whether the backhaul capacity is even there anyway to support the amount of data!
I’m not surprised T-Mobile Germany had to axe it’s tariffs. Consumers in Germany are much more price-aware than in Ireland. Two petrol stations a few miles apart displaying a price difference of five cents per liter? Won’t happen in Germany!