The iPhone 4 Upgrade Offer

[Anonymous]

Hi, i know this may have already been posted and answered, for that i apologies.

But basically at the moment im reading mixed reports that o2 are offering the upgrade to all customers still under contact and other reports stating that this offer only applies to those who are under an iPhone contact.

Im hoping the latter is not the case as my contact run out in January and i stated as i knew the iPhone 4 would be coming out in the near future that i would want to get this upon its release. The gentleman who done my upgrade said that this would be fine and basically describe what by the looks of things is the special limited time offer that o2 are going to offer, the only thing is though the upgrade i got, gave me a blackberry as i already had the 3gs.

So to sum up im just wondering if anyone knows of the criteria of this special upgrade? or am i just being inpatient?

Thanks

Lloyd

[Anonymous]

To be honest, I'm in two minds. I've decided not to go with the early upgrade as it's not for me, but my contract is up in september. So i'm thinking do I buy a 12 month £20 simplicity for 12 months now before the tarrif changes? and if I do will it still be affected 1st October? I have iPhone £35, but i'm not going to pay £35 if I can pay £20, plus Will my £35 tarrif be limited after 1st October? It's a gamble buying the simplicity as I will be stuck with it for 12 months. I will have to buy the phone on PAYG.
Any suggestion?
UPDATE!
I just spoke to cust services and they said that the new data cap will only apply to New and Upgrade customers. All exsisting tarrif will stay the same. So if you have unlimted, it will stay unlimited. Great new! I guess for some, all we need to worry about is purchasing the phone.

So what happens if you upgrade but keep the same tariff?

[Anonymous]

Surely they shouldn't have made it 'unlimited'? What irks me the most is that they do nothing to cut down the heavy users, they just punish everyone.

Erm. O2 are not "punishing everyone". They are introducing a cap that will punish the small minority of heavy users, and have no real effect on the vast majority of people who have normal use.

I did a test over the weekend to see how much I actually use considering I'm mostly connected to WI-FI where possible. Well I have Sent: 5.7MB & Received 132MB. I thing that worries me is I haven't done much aprt from watch the last 6 mins of the world cup game. I mean this phone has opened the eyes of many and is a modern dat break through. Interenet on the go, access to all types of multimedia applications, and then a cap! It's like giving you a Playstaion 3 with no control pad!. Are we going to allow ourselves to be treated this way? Don't we care about our rights anymore? Have our standards gone so low that we will accept anything? If we don't act now and show these companies we mean business, you can kiss the nice things in life good by. I mean why would they give you anything decent when you'll pay even more for absolute rubbish and pay an extra fee to get the things you should be getting anyway. Poor people are not meant to have anything. This type of thing is only setup for the rich. Soon we won't be able to afford an iPhone not to mention a tarrif to go with it. This phone is the most expensive phone on the market. In some cases it's costing £1000 or more to run one and yet still they want to take away unlimited data package! Why? So they can charge us more later. These companies don't do anything for us, they only care about profit! profit! profit!

**** A mobile phone is a luxury item and can be priced in any way. A mobile phone with a contract certainly is not a necessity of life. If you can't afford, go without, your life is not going to be impaired by it.

I think you'll find that it is a necessity of life now a days mate and not a luxury.****


I take it you have apologised to one of the most respected members of O2 Forums for your little name calling episode? O2 may have suggested that you join the boards to discuss things relating to the iPhone, but I can assure you that the regular users in here could do without childish, offensive name calling.


As it happens, I believe that the iPhone is a luxury telephone and I am hopeful this new "cap" will return prestige to ownership of the same.

[Anonymous]

To be honest, I'm in two minds. I've decided not to go with the early upgrade as it's not for me, but my contract is up in september. So i'm thinking do I buy a 12 month £20 simplicity for 12 months now before the tarrif changes? and if I do will it still be affected 1st October? I have iPhone £35, but i'm not going to pay £35 if I can pay £20, plus Will my £35 tarrif be limited after 1st October? It's a gamble buying the simplicity as I will be stuck with it for 12 months. I will have to buy the phone on PAYG.
Any suggestion?
UPDATE!
I just spoke to cust services and they said that the new data cap will only apply to New and Upgrade customers. All exsisting tarrif will stay the same. So if you have unlimted, it will stay unlimited. Great new! I guess for some, all we need to worry about is purchasing the phone.

So what happens if you upgrade but keep the same tariff?

you upgrade or get a new contract you will be on the new term.....limited data plan. If you buy the phone out right then you can keep your unlimited data plan. This was confirmed today, by three different o2 reps. Hope this helps.

[Anonymous]

I can see that this cap is going to cause issues. Just makes it obvious that o2 have not got the infrastructure in place to cope with the level of demand
To circumnavigate the data plan issue I use a MiFi device. There are plans where you can get unlimited Internet for 5 quid a month on '3' . Fantastic little devices which act as a wifi hotspot and can share with 5 other devices. Also pretty cool for transferring files between pc's using it's unbuilt router functions.

back tobtopic , When can we actually call in and pay this 20 a month fee. As it states that this has to be paid upfront. I want to pay it now so I know that I'm getting a handset on release day. It seems as if users with a contract have to wait till release day and then pay up. By then all the preorders will have vanished and will prob have to wait weeks for new stock to arrive.

[Anonymous]

You can pay at an O2 store on the day like I am doing.

To make it even easier, I paid £5 to Phones4U and they pre-order you a phone so on the 24th I have a phone waiting for me. I have £60 to pay off and they are giving me £150 for my 3G.