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Rebtel is one of the pair of telephony products I use every day (the other being truphone)
Well news has reached me that O2 Germany have now blocked the German Rebtel access numbers. I presume that these numbers come from Voxbone or any number of voip DID providers which mean that O2 are blocking all access […]

Anyone got any idea how I am running UMA on an Irish O2 registered iPhone?

If you are having problems with O2 3G iPhone connectivity in Ireland please read below and see these images

images courtesy of Shane
Chris Mehigan left a comment today and we had a quick chat
“Sim card was activated and designated as “Speak Easy” which of course is wrong, Customer Care changed it to “Bill Pay” and asked […]

O2 Ireland have announced some nice summer special on their mobile broadband packages.

“Sign up to mobile broadband between 1st of July and 31st of August and get mobile broadband for €19.99 a month on a 12 month contract”
Device is the E220 Huawei and cost on this is only €19.99
Fair usage policy applied but limit is […]

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 […]

O2 appear to have woken up with the first bunch of competive products I have seen for Ireland.
Recently they launched “Release” which offers unlimited calls or texts to any network for €99 which is a definite step in the right direction and Ireland’s first unlimited plan.
Now it appears that its the turn of the prepaid […]

At last the news that a lot of O2 customers have been waiting for.
The N95 8GB is finally available.

Pricing (below) is pretty ok although as far as I am aware Vodafone made a huge reduction to the pricing for the same phone this week, cant seem to confirm that yet though.
O2 customers will love this […]

If I was to buy an iPhone in Ireland and didn’t want to get hit with the “Paddy Tax” here is what I might do.
I would pick up one from one of thousand sources especially Cork where there are going to be 1500 free iPhones given to Apple employee next week.
So imagine I have picked […]

This press release was sent to Global networks today. RTE the national Irish channel have covered it already.
Press-release
Irish taken as fools as O2 Ireland iPhone package comes with attached “Paddy tax”
Irish company Cubic Telecom today blasted the prices that people will have to pay for the iPhone when it’s introduced in Ireland on March 14th. […]

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 […]