TAG | Telstra vs Optus: iPhone 3G, revenues and you |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Saturday, 14 June 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 4 Vodafone also needs to come clean on whether or not it will be installing any 2100MHz 3.5G equipment or if its rollout will consist exclusively of 900MHz equipment. After all, if they already have a phone that works, and aren’t interested in a GPRS speed iPhone experience, they’d simply be better off waiting until the NEXT iPhone arrives – an iPhone which will probably have a 900MHz chip inside, along with video calling capabilities, 32GB and even 64GB capacities and other features, like, er... copy and paste. If Telstra was selling the iPhone 3G, none of this would be an issue, as the iPhone 3G supports the 850MHz network that Telstra already has installed with coverage to 98.9% of the population of Australia. The only major issue with a Telstra iPhone 3G would be the cost of the voice and data plan, something that could easily end up being the most expensive iPhone 3G voice and data plan on the planet, if Telstra’s pricing history is anything to go by, which of course, it is. So... if you’re a city dweller, the biggest issue for you will be what the iPhone 3G plans are on offer from Optus and Vodafone. But if you’re a rural and regional customer, you should either wait to see if the areas you live, work and travel to will have 2100MHz 3.5G coverage, or you need to decide if you are happy to put up with, at least in some areas, GPRS speed for Internet browsing, which you may well do if you can get 2100MHz 3G speeds in some of the areas you live and work. In the end, it’s rural and regional customers that are being screwed again. Why couldn’t Optus and Vodafone put the pressure onto Apple to deliver a quad-band HSDPA device? Why did it only have to be tri-band? Please read on to page 4. |
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