iPhone Big Hit in Britain - Telcom O2 thrilled

British iPhone users love their data
Today, December 28, 2007, 6 hours ago | Mike Schramm


Insanely Great Mac has the breakdown on a meeting between O2
(purveyors of the iPhone in Britain) and Mr. Jobs from the UK's
Financial Times, and it seems iPhone users across the pond can't get
enough data. Over 60% of iPhone users use over 25mb/month of data,
while only 1.8% of non-iPhone users on O2 go over that mark. That's a
lot of data downloading.

It's probably not a surprise, then, that about 60% of iPhone buyers
are also new to O2, which, in my estimation, means that people who
switched for the iPhone also switched from a non-data cellphone, and
are making up for the difference. We talked on the Talkcast a little
while ago about how the iPhone isn't necessarily stealing the
"business smartphone" audience away from brands like Blackberry-- it's
actually attracting new smartphone users completely. And there are a
lot of them-- O2 is looking to sell 200,000 iPhones in Britain by the
end of January, and they say that despite Apple's cut of the profits,
they're making money on every one.

Finally, we get almost-but-not-quite-final confirmation that the 3G
iPhone is due next year, and that O2 will very likely carry it. Which
isn't really a surprise-- seems like things are going pretty well for
O2 and Apple in GB, and so it's hard to see either one of them
breaking up a good thing.



Is it true that an executive at Verizon may hang himself in disgrace
for turning down Apple? Oh wait; that is Japanese business culture.

4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:e29582ed-f529-4638-af4c-
93399197648c@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

> Over 60% of iPhone users use over 25mb/month of data

Woo Woo! 25mb/month?......

Waitaminit! Shouldn't that read per MINUTE?!

SELLphones....still selling data by the kilobyte....(sigh)

Larry
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I worked hard under Social Security since I was 12.
My SS retirement check is one oz of gold per month.
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In article <Xns9A156ED934D0noonehomecom@208.49.80.253>,
Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

> > Over 60% of iPhone users use over 25mb/month of data
>
> Woo Woo! 25mb/month?......
>
> Waitaminit! Shouldn't that read per MINUTE?!
>
> SELLphones....still selling data by the kilobyte....(sigh)

No, Larry. Unmetered data plan.

It's way past 1980. Time to put the disco suit away, too.

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <elmop@nastydesigns.com> wrote in news:elmop-
85845C.01205729122007@nntp1.usenetserver.com:

>
> It's way past 1980. Time to put the disco suit away, too.
>
>

The monster ATT bills I saw were still in KB...(c;)

Larry
--
I worked hard under Social Security since I was 12.
My SS retirement check is one oz of gold per month.
Can we afford to start any more wars for corporations?

In article <Xns9A1588671CFDDnoonehomecom@208.49.80.253>,
Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

> > It's way past 1980. Time to put the disco suit away, too.
> >
> >
>
> The monster ATT bills I saw were still in KB...(c;)

They measure the data, and initially reported every bit of it in the
bill, but please--know the facts before you comment. It's $20/month
unlimited data in the US.

If you use your US-activated iPhone outside the US, and have no
arrangements with AT&T regarding special out-of-country data rates, then
you get dinged with data roaming charges.

At 28 Dec 2007 20:31:12 -0800 4phun wrote:

> "O2 is looking to sell 200,000 iPhones in Britain by the
> end of January, and they say that despite Apple's cut of the profits,
> they're making money on every one.


Interesting. Of couse, they WERE planing to sell 200,000 by Christmas.
Maybe Christmas is celebrated on Jan. 31st across the pond?

> Is it true that an executive at Verizon may hang himself in disgrace
> for turning down Apple? Oh wait; that is Japanese business culture.

Perhaps that Verizon guy is consoling himself with the fact that Verizon
keeps all the revenue on their corporate phone sales, instead of just 85%...