Comments on: O2 axe unlimited data; new limits ahead of iPhone 4 launch

By: DeltaCity

DeltaCity — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:27:39 +0000

What a backward step.

Of course, if 500MB was REALLY adequate for 97% of their customers, then there would be no need to make any changes at all. The reality of course is that data usage is only going to go up for everyone and o2 will be catching many more than 3% of its customers with expensive bolt-on charges before long.

By: Alex Walsh

Alex Walsh — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:44:33 +0000

I’ve had my iPhone 3GS since January and I think I’ve used it over 3G fairly aggressively- a reasonable amount of Tunein Radio, some Air Video streaming, videos up to Facebook, lots of twitpics etc etc. Yet since I’ve got it I’ve managed about 250megs of upload and 754megs of download. I can understand people hitting limits if they’re using TVCatchup over 3G incessantly but I’ve even managed to watch half a match on SKY mobile within that 754megs. Is it a gamebreaker?

By: Chris Davies

Chris Davies — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:22:40 +0000

That’s basically the same as the iPhone 4 plans:

http://www.slashgear.com/o2-iphone-4-tariffs-revealed-data-disappointment-1089312/

By: sockatume

sockatume — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:15:27 +0000

Seems the iPhone’s an exception:

“All our smartphone tariffs for iPhone include Visual Voicemail, up to 1GB of UK data and unlimited Wi-Fi.”