What with all the hype and general excitement around the iPhone 3GS, I thought I’d take a look behind the iPhone tariff pricings, comparing a similar monthly spend across O2’s three kinds of tariff (note – I compared these tariffs online, this does not represent what you may find in shops):
- Standard Pay Monthly
- Simplicity (SIM-only) Rolling Monthly
- iPhone 3G(S)
I decided I would pick on £30/month (£29.38 to be exact) as the figure to assess across the board (since each tariff option has a £30 option), and see what that bought me:
Standard Pay Monthly
- 18-month tariff
- 400 minutes
- 1000 texts (online only)
- unlimited o2 to o2 calls
- Nokia 5800 Tube (free)
Simplicity
- Rolling monthly contract
- 1200 minutes
- 2400 texts (online only)
- unlimited o2 to o2 calls (default bolt-on)
iPhone 3GS
- 18-month tariff
- 75 minutes
- 125 texts
- unlimited UK data (GPRS/3G) and WiFi access (via The Cloud)
I think those are the salient points, and it’s interesting to see how things stack up, isn’t it? I should be fair and say that if you were to go to the next tariff up with the iPhone, then you get 600 minutes and 500 texts per month – but the aim here was to compare what you get for your £29.38/month….
So what do we think?
You can find the tariff prices on the O2 site for Pay Monthly here, for Simplicity here, and for iPhone 3GS here.