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Does the UK iPhone Plan Add Up?
An anonymous reader writes "Is it just me or is the UK iPhone deal seriously more expensive than the US deal? If you look at what AT&T offers compared to what O2 offers, you get significantly less for your money in the UK than you do in the States. It's also significantly more expensive than other non-iPhone deals in the UK, which offer similar services. Steve Jobs response to the more expensive UK iPhone is that 'it's more expensive to do business in the UK', but what does that mean? As a UK resident I'm disappointed that we didn't get the same plan as the AT&T plan, particularly the free mobile-to-mobile calls. Is there some element of the UK iPhone service that I'm missing here?"
We take it in the ass everytime we buy anything, after a while you just accept it!
Thats why we all have asstunnels!
Sorry, what's this company called Zero-Two? It's O₂. Although I guess O2's acceptable given that Slashdot really really doesn't like the idea of anything more than 7 bits to a character.
Aren`t Apple fans used to paying for more and getting less ?
> it's more expensive to do business in the UK', but what does that mean?
It means that, for just one example, when I worked for Cellnet [now o2] a few years ago, I, and the few other hundred on that one project got paid several thousand pounds a week to write code. Mobile phone users got a big bill....much bigger then too. They had Rowan Atkinson at one Xmas party and a helicopter, that was when the rest of you had negative equity and recession and 'loadsamoney' was no longer funny.
That's without mentioning the thousands of useless, lead swinging "permies" they had - the old BT baggage, with share options and civil service index linked pensions, based on 30/60 rather than 40/80, that took them a few years [and a big bundle of cash] to get rid of.
Basically Britain is a bunch of idle pissheads that earn a lot for doing next to nothing whilst the real work is done by others [more often Eastern Europeans these days]. Ironically, they each whinge like stuck pigs when the inevitable high costs to pay for all of them doing nothing is reflected in the higher price for stuff in stores. It'd be worse, but thankfully just about everything we buy is made in China. If it weren't a iphone or PS3 would probably cost several thousand pounds.