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Thread ID: 91455	2008-07-07 23:30:00	iPhone Vodafone pricing revealed...	Jan Birkeland (4741)	PC World Chat

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686328	2008-07-09 00:20:00	The iphone has sold out in Britain and that was online customers, fat chance of that happening here at those prices. www.stuff.co.nz	Hitech (9024)
686329	2008-07-09 02:28:00	I think everyone who wants a iphone should jump on the phone to vodaphone and consistantly jam the lines all day about the ludicrous prices of these plans surely by then they will have to cave in to public demand. Actually voting with your wallets by just not buying one would send a very strong message to Vodafone that they are just being a bunch of arrogant asshats who went to Telecom's school of marketing.:mad:	vitalstatistix (9182)
686330	2008-07-09 02:29:00	A review? But its basically the same as the 1Gen one except with GPS and 3G and its lighter. That and the Apps store should be available before the end of the week. The 1st iPhone didn't have the Apps store. Looks like O2 in the UK have got it right - Hey Vodafone - get a clue *******s! <waves> In a cautionary message to potential iPhone buyers, Britain's O2 says a rush of customers that brought down its online orders for iPhone 3G is a sign of a looming supply crunch that could last for weeks. The complete message from O2 Sales Director Stephen Shurrock, obtained by AppleInsider, apologizes for the surge that knocked out its systems for ordering the Apple device and that it was the ratio of demand to actually supply that was to blame. The company's early registration page wasn't just a notification service but a way passing on demand estimates to Apple, according to Shurrock: the users signed up at the site gave O2 reasons to ask for larger iPhone orders ahead of July 11th. With the number of registrants quickly spiraling out of control, however, it soon became clear that there would be many more orders than iPhones once advance purchases were an option. "To put it in context we had over 200,000 people expressing interest and only a very small proportion of that number of devices available," he says. "Faced with this dilemma, we made it clear in the communications that to be fair to all customers the orders would be managed on a first come first served basis, as stock was limited. The response was so great that the online store completely sold out of iPhones within just a few hours." Even with 250 times the performance capacity and backups in place, the online system collapsed after it received as many as 13,000 orders per second. "We just weren’t prepared for this unprecedented level of demand," Shurrock adds. "No website is. "	vitalstatistix (9182)
686331	2008-07-09 04:29:00	This is an interesting Ozzie article about NZs crap plans and how they compare to OZs plans, which look a lot better. blogs.smh.com.au	robbyp (2751)
686332	2008-07-09 04:30:00	This is an interesting Ozzie article about NZs crap plans and how they compare to OZs plans, which look a lot better. blogs.smh.com.au Vodafone OZ plans are as follows: Vodafone is offering four different plans, which are modelled after its current schemes, for both cap contract and business customers. The cheapest monthly plan runs for $69 a month for $310 worth of minutes and texts, and 250MB worth of data. With this plan, customers will pay $189 for the 8GB and $309 for the 16GB. With a $169 a-month contract, customers can get the 8GB iPhone for free, and the 16GB device for $89. This plan is worth $1200 of minutes and 1GB worth of data. The other plans charge $99 a month for $600 worth of talk and text and 500MB of data, and $119 for $800 worth of text and talk and 500MB of data.	vitalstatistix (9182)
686333	2008-07-09 04:49:00	Vodafone OZ plans are as follows: Vodafone is offering four different plans, which are modelled after its current schemes, for both cap contract and business customers. The cheapest monthly plan runs for $69 a month for $310 worth of minutes and texts, and 250MB worth of data. With this plan, customers will pay $189 for the 8GB and $309 for the 16GB. With a $169 a-month contract, customers can get the 8GB iPhone for free, and the 16GB device for $89. This plan is worth $1200 of minutes and 1GB worth of data. The other plans charge $99 a month for $600 worth of talk and text and 500MB of data, and $119 for $800 worth of text and talk and 500MB of data. They are still better than NZs, but they are probably OZ's most expensive provider, so they don't measure up well. At least in Oz they have prepay options, as I don't want to sign up to a contract, if I have purchased the handset outright. ANother good article, the best way to protest, just don't buy it aardvark.co.nz	robbyp (2751)
686334	2008-07-09 04:57:00	I don't hold much hope for decent Australian iPhone plans from Vodafone after looking at its New Zealand pricing... (blogs.smh.com.au) Well ozzy has a little something called competition. As I said earlier (pressf1.co.nz), I wonder if importing a iPhone 3G handset from Australia is a viable option.	sal (67)
686335	2008-07-09 05:16:00	Well ozzy has a little something called competition. As I said earlier (pressf1.co.nz), I wonder if importing a iPhone 3G handset from Australia is a viable option. Apparently according to this post by Vodafone NZ, it can be used on their prepay network, but you may not be able to use it for data. www.geekzone.co.nz I guess it could be something to do with their billing systems, as they have perhaps the worst billing system in NZ, and have had major problems with it.	robbyp (2751)
686336	2008-07-09 05:33:00	When you do manage to get the pricing right for the iPhone to such an extent that you have 200,000 customers enquiring about pre orders, here are some of the logistics involved macenstein.com Obviously the article is not about Vodafone NZ. O2s other advantage is that unlike Vodafone NZ, they have already delt with iPhone v1 so they "should" know what to expect.	vitalstatistix (9182)
686337	2008-07-09 06:01:00	When you do manage to get the pricing right for the iPhone to such an extent that you have 200,000 customers enquiring about pre orders, here are some of the logistics involved macenstein.com Obviously the article is not about Vodafone NZ. O2s other advantage is that unlike Vodafone NZ, they have already delt with iPhone v1 so they "should" know what to expect. I would be interested to find out how many they sell in the first day or two, although I don't think they will release those figures. I doubt they will sell out, unless they were only provided with a limited number, however it probably won't look very good if they don't sell out of at least the 16GB ones.	robbyp (2751)
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