| O2 says they値l offer unlimited iPhone data after all, but is it? |
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| Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 05 November 2007 | |
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Page 1 of 2 Key was quoted as saying that: ''Customers find 'unlimited with limits' confusing, plus most people don't speak in megabits or understand what they equate to. So we've taken the decision to remove the fair usage cap so that 'unlimited' really does mean 'unlimited' – this is a market first." It’s interesting to see exactly what O2 say themselves on their website about the fair usage policy that still applies around this new ‘unlimited’ accouncement, given the news that 200MB was set to be the limit, with their main competitor, T-Mobile, offering a 1GB limit on their similarly priced ‘unlimited’ data plan, and access on ‘The Cloud’s Wi-Fi service’ being limited to only 60 hours, especially as the iPhone goes on sale £269 this Friday (Nov 9), the same day it will go on sale in France through Orange and Germany with Deutsche Telekom. Here’s what O2's website says as of 5 November, 2007: +++ What is the fair usage policy for the unlimited data and Wi-Fi? Your O2 tariff for iPhone allows you unlimited use of O2 UK’s Edge / GPRS networks and The Cloud’s UK Wireless LAN network, for personal internet use, email and Visual Voicemail (VVM) on your iPhone only. All usage must be for your private, personal and non-commercial purposes. You may not use your SIM Card in any other device, or use your SIM Card or iPhone to allow the continuous streaming of any audio / video content, enable P2P or file sharing or use them in such a way that adversely impacts the service to other O2 customers. If O2 reasonably suspect you are not acting in accordance with this policy O2 reserves the right to impose further charges or disconnect your tariff at any time, having attempted to contact you first. +++ So, as users on an EDGE network with a locked iPhone won’t really be able to do much to the download limit unless they constantly download every YouTube video available, or continuously watch the streaming iPhone Guided Tour video at Apple’s website, and the iPhone can’t officially connect to PCs or Macs to be used as a wireless modem, although hackers have unofficially figured out how to do that, too. Using your iPhone to receive business email through IMAP on your iPhone email program seems to officially be out, which is odd, although it wouldn't stop anyone that wanted to set it up. The conditions mostly only seem to apply to those who will try to hack their iPhones and install unauthorized third party software once the inevitable hack to the new 1.1.2 firmware emerges. Anyone that abuses the system and is continuously downloading or transferring data without end in volume will clearly be contacted to advise they are going over what the new limit for unlimited data is, despite the new unlimited status to the original unlimited data plan. [CONTINUED ON PAGE 2] |
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