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O2 To Improve 3G UK Coverage With Extra 1500 Mobile Network Sites

goodfella5 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:55:10 +0000

O2 mobile customers with internet-enabled smartphones such as the Apple iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre will soon benefit from a improved network coverage, as O2 have confirmed plans to build 1,500 new mobile network sites across the UK in 2010.

This is welcome news to O2 mobile customers that struggle to get a decent 3G signal in parts of the UK. Despite O2 having had exclusivity for the last two years on the Apple iPhone 3G S, Ofcom 3G coverage maps published earlier this year suggested O2 had less extensive 3G mobile coverage across the UK than mobile rivals such as 3 and Orange – who also now have the iPhone. O2, will see this step as vital in staying at the front of the game as the smartphone market heats up and 3G coverage and reliability become ever more important.

O2 To Allow Customers To Unlocked Their iPhones

goodfella5 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:25:23 +0000

Have you got a iPhone on O2, but you fancy switching to Orange, or maybe Vodafone next year. Well, for small fee of O2 say that customers at the end of their contract to unlock there iPhone’s so that they will work on other networks. The “Small” is a matter of opinion I suppose, but we have heard that it will cost £14.97 to have your iPhone unlocked. iPhone Pay & Go customers who have had their iPhone for more than 12 months will be entitled to unlock their devices too. What you opinions about this? Do you thinks it’s a little cheeky?

O2 Angers Customers With iPhone 3GS Decison

goodfella5 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:00:36 +0000

There have been many angry O2 customer appearing on the internet, after the Network said it would be charging it’s customer who wanted to upgrade to buy out there existing iPhone contracts. Most customer had expected O2 to offer a similar deal to the one it ran after the iPhone 3G was announced last July. This allowed 1st Gen iPhone users to get the 2nd Gen iPhone at a reduced fee if they signed up to another 18-month contract with O2, which has the exclusive rights to the iPhone in the UK. Fuming O2 customers have been posting on there Twitter accounts and other social network pages saying how pissed off they are with what O2 are doing. While one customer has actually started a petition on O2 own forum.

UK iPhone users have also been shocked by the news that they will have to pay an extra £14.68 per month if they want to use the new tethering functionality that comes as part of the iPhone 3.0 software update. This allows users to connect their iPhone to their computer to access the internet over the 3G network. O2 has not responded directly to customer criticisms over the upgrade situation, but on the company’s Twitter stream, it repeatedly made clear that users would have to pay to break their contract and switch to the iPhone 3GS. Apple’s new iPhone goes on sale on June 19 in the UK. Consumers will have to pay as much as £184.98 for the 16GB model on the entry-level 18-month contract, or as much as £274.23 for the 32GB version. The 8GB iPhone 3G handset is available for free on some tariffs, or the reduced price of £96.89 on the most basic 18-month contract.

Hopefully, O2 will decide to do a U-turn on this later in the week. Maybe they think because they exclusive rights to the iPhone they can cash in on this……..if the internet communities reaction is anything to go by they could be very wrong. It does seem to be a strange move, especially in the current financial climate. People may find it difficult to maintain payments on one contract, let alone having to buy one out to buy another with the name network. It not like there asking to move over to Orange or Vodafone is it.