Does O2′s flat rate data plans take sheen off iPhone shine?
O2 has unveiled the flat rate data plans it promised to all its monthly contract customers.
For £7.50 per month, users can add the “Web Bolt On” which gives unlimited (ahem, 200MB per month) browsing on a mobile phone.
For £30 per month, O2 give users a data card which will allow up to 3GB of data transfer per month.
What we still don’t know is how “unlimited” O2′s iPhone data rate is. I still haven’t seen anything published, but the worrying thing is that it could be rather low. Two hundred megabytes of data transfer per month is nowhere near unlimited. Three gigs is better, but I’d expect a lot of British iPhone users to be hunting around for The Cloud Wi-Fi hotspots to surf.
Though it’s great, and about time, that O2 has taken some steps towards flat-rate data, and the iPhone’s coming may well have been instrumental in this, has this taken some of the shine off the iPhone?
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