http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/02/28/o2s-bringing-the-iphone-ireland-on-march-14th/ Engadget Mobile Comments for O2's bringing the iPhone to Ireland on March 14th http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/02/28/o2s-bringing-the-iphone-ireland-on-march-14th/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/02/28/o2s-bringing-the-iphone-ireland-on-march-14th/so you pay a quarter the price of the phone a month!?!]]>Feb 28th 2008 11:38AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/02/28/o2s-bringing-the-iphone-ireland-on-march-14th/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/02/28/o2s-bringing-the-iphone-ireland-on-march-14th/If you were to use the 1Gig allowance for example on a Vodafone contract here it would cost you almost €5k. Vodafone have a "Mobile Internet" offering that looks comparable but in reality the 500Meg data allowance that provides only allows access to a highly restricted Vodafone walled garden (e.g. you can't even access Google.com from it). 3 have a good mobile data package in theory but their traffic "management" also prevents many things one might reasonably expect to be able to do (like set up a third party e-mail client for example).
You can get much better data rates here for mobile data cards or if you have a business account but this is the first realistically priced mobile internet offering here in Ireland, even if it does appear expensive by the standards of more competitive markets.]]>Feb 28th 2008 2:03PM