iPhone tethering: Greedy O2... - Page 4

Anonymous · ‎09-06-2009

So you think it's a good idea to charge your customers extra to tether an iPhone to their laptop?

I think any customer with sense would rather just jailbreak their phone than pay an extra £15/month for a service they are already paying for...

Any reason for this outragous charging scheme, or is it just for the hell of it?? Worth a try??

Have you been living in a cave recently and not noticed that the general public aren't that happy with greed (see recent MP expenses scandals)?

Anonymous · ‎19-06-2009

I reckon if you use VPN and enable it on the iPhone O2 wont be able to tell the difference...

But better still - call Ofcom and make them aware you're unhappy this, they've already said to a number of other people that they'll investigate if they receive enough complaints....

Keep in mind that customers of O2 using some other handsets can "tether" free as it's a standard feature of the phone, this extortion only applies to iPhone users.

Anonymous · ‎20-06-2009

FYI

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandte ... tware.html

I have also posted this on a similar tread that is running on the iPhone technical questions section of the forum

viewtopic.php?p=127105#127105:

Anonymous · ‎22-06-2009

The way I look at it is the mobile broadband plan I was going to buy with no tie ins

Anonymous · ‎22-06-2009

Tethering's something I'd like to have, but I only need it occasionally, so I can't justify paying £14.99 a month for it.

Why can't O2 offer a £2 for the day deal like T-Mobile does with their mobile broadband. I'd be on that like a shot.

Anonymous · ‎23-06-2009

I really dont understand?

Why are they asking us to pay twice for something, their website even states you save £15 for a bolt on.

"Choose your iPhone and tariff
All Pay Monthly tariffs for iPhone include unlimited visual voicemail, unlimited data and unlimited Wi-Fi Bolt Ons (worth £15 per month)."

Where in the contract does it state i cannot use tethering or use the sim in a non iphone phone which allows tethering. Most PDA's have tethering as standard?

Anonymous · ‎23-06-2009

Actually I'm not happy with the "greed" of the iphone users posting on the forums since the release last night. At the moment, the iphone gives you unlimited data and free wifi plus loads of minutes as standard compared to other contracts. Yet iphone owners want more by expecting tethering to be free! Check the T&C's for the use of unlimited data on mobile phones. It's effectively turning the iphone into a usb dongle which is chargeable. That could be useful for people who don't want to carry an additional dongle along when one device could be used. That price is inline with mobile broadband dongles.

suggest you read it properly
http://o2.co.uk/termsandconditions/iphone

It says using sim in other devices NOT in the phone you have a contract for.

More to the point it is NOT inline with other mobile broadband charges. Three for example will allow a half price modem if you have a phone account.

If O2 had any sense they would allow it for 500mb a month and charge an extra £7.50 for a GB.

500mb is the current fair use I believe. If people dont abuse it then whats the harm. 02 just want more money for effectively something the phone was designed to do when they sold it to us initially.

They just didnt think this fatr in advance and dont like it

Anonymous · ‎24-06-2009

I see what you are saying but you do have a bolt on as standard with a iphone.

You are not connecting or using your sim with a modem. You are using it with the phone you are contracted for.

* in, or connected to, any other device including modems;

You have highlighted the above line? which part of "other" devices. Suggesting the iphone has magically turned into another device is not true.

I very much doubt a lawyer could argue this in court.

Which part of unlimited internet access / browsing refers to a different service? Perhaps you are suggesting the iphone is now connected to a "different" internet.

It does not matter how you look at it we are being stitched up.

I do agree that blatantly downloading GB's of software and 02 have the right to protect bandwidth.

By allowing iphone users no additional data in accordance with there T&C's ie 500mb a month is one thing, charging £15 for what the same thing is another.

They have the option of playing fair and clamping down on abusive users or charging them additional amounts based on current industry pricing structure.

£15 is not and will never be fair. O2 has no additional modem to fund, £15 for 3gb is unreasonable considering you are already paying for the phone as part of your contract pricing structure.

If you want to pay it then do so but you are more a sheep than sheepdog.

02 already have everyone over a barrel charging what they like as its exclusive, no free upgrades. Put up or shut up.

Lets all roll over and show our bellies?

LMAO

This is not a dig at you personally but dont quote terms and conditions to justify your own blind spending.

Anonymous · ‎24-06-2009

You are not connecting or using your sim with a modem. You are using it with the phone you are contracted for.
* in, or connected to, any other device including modems;
You have highlighted the above line? which part of "other" devices. Suggesting the iphone has magically turned into another device is not true.

The 'other' device is the laptop (or any other internet capable device).

Anonymous · ‎24-06-2009

You may not use your SIM Card:

* in, or connected to, any other device including modems;

If you dont have an iphone then its not your issue. You dont pay the iphone contract, you didnt have to pay the phone like other iphone users.

If I was cut off then I would write to them, I would stop paying them also.

The reality is, I would happily only use the tethering for light use and not "take the michael" In all likely hood two or three times a month.

I can understand 02's point that greedy iphone users would be hammering bandwidth but there is a fair compromise.

They should allow 500mb as part of the contract. 3gb for £7.50 and more for £15.

Simple fact of the matter they are ripping people off. I only have five months left of my 3g contract, I have activated the free tethering but do not plan to use it only in emergencies.

For the most part I am happy surfing on the iphone, many other iphone users are the same. I do not want to pay £15 just for the sake of lining the mobile companies pockets.

Lets face it, they dont refund you on unused minutes. They dont refund you on unused bandwidth. They dont offer 3g iphone users any benefits on the new 3gs phone for loyalty.

o2's exclusivity gives them the right to charge what they like, sooner its ended the better.

Anonymous · ‎24-06-2009

When the tethering was announced I was quite excited until I saw t he charges they impose. I don't think o2 understand what unlimited actually means. For those who don't know, it means as much internet as you want using your iPhone. So why o2 want to charge extra for using THE PHONES internet just on a laptop is unclear to me - apart from they are greedy which we all know is true judging from todays episode.

Because the free internet is to use ON THE PHONE not ON YOUR LAPTOP USING THE PHONE AS A MODEM.

Which may i add is clearly stated in the T&C's but hey, nobody reads them right, well tough, get over it.