iPhone launch-day for the UK coming up quickly

By Ewan on October 18, 2007 in Operators

And how are the competing mobile operators getting on, I wonder?

No doubt the T-Mobiles, 3UKs, o2s and Vodafones are, at least, slightly concerned at the imminent launch of the iPhone coming 9th November.

I wonder how many customers o2 will be able to churn from other networks on to the iPhone? 20,000? That’s fine.

But if they’re able to take 100,000 new customers? Or 200,000? Or half a million? I wonder, I wonder.

It’s going to be an exciting month, November.

Ewan is Founder and Editor of Mobile Industry Review. He writes about a wide variety of industry issues and is usually active on Twitter most days. You can read more about him or reach him with these details.

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http://whatleydude.vox.com James Whatley

Honestly?

Anytime ANYONE pulls out an iphone I just know I’m going to feel the same way as I do whenever anyone pulls out a RAZR and tells me how cool it is…
GaZZ

I’ve had mine for a month now, using it on t-mobile, the only real bug to bear is you can’t forward SMS text, but thats a small price really when your the owner of such a cool phone. It dosent do anything special, it’s the way it does it.
class just pure class

GaZZ
http://3xseries.wordpress.com/ Ben Smith

Can anyone with an unlocked iPhone comment on which UK networks (apart from O2 obviously) have usable EDGE networks and whether it makes any discernable difference?

As far as I know the only EDGE-capable networks are O2 and Orange, but it’s surprisingly tricky to confirm…
Ewan

Dead slow on GPRS on T-Mobile…
http://whatleydude.vox.com James Whatley

I’m pretty sure my VF N95 has shown me the ‘E’ on occasion…