Check out the website: Discover Lost Songs

Besucht die Website: Discover Lost Songs

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That’s today. Steve just announced the iPhone for UK for November, 9th. No 2nd generation iPhone, no UMTS. The same iPhone they sell in the US. Provider will be O2 UK. They will sell it for 269 pound sterling, which is about 390€ or 540$. 18 month contract from 50 to 79€ (or 70 to 110$) including a data flatrate with EDGE.

But wait, a real data flatrate? NO! It’s limited to 1,400 web pages per day (What?) due to fair usage agreement. Wait, where are we - year 2007, isn’t it? Data flatrates everywhere.. In Germany you get a UMTS flatrate for 25€ (35$) per month - real UMTS!

So, they’re using EDGE - the good old GSM way. So what’s the EDGE coverage in UK? 30%? What? Yes, it’s true! So what are they doing? Of course, they will upgrade their network for EDGE. Isn’t that crazy? It’s just a couple of years ago that European providers starting investing billions in upgrading their networks to UMTS - that is way ahead of the plenty 20 year old GSM standard. So - here comes one man with one phone and - and they’re dropping their efforts in the next mobile telephony generation?! *shaking head*

Similar agreements with other European provider are expected for the next days/weeks.

That’s it. Goodbye iPhone Europe.