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Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News The 'connected laptop' packages include a cheaper-than-an-iPhone £25-per-month consumer tariff offering the popular Asus Eee PC 900 mini laptop. In a fight between an iPhone smart phone and an Eee PC netbook, which chunk of mobile hardware would win? [23 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G: The wait is over
News Business customers who had the original iPhone on a consumer tariff, but are now upgrading to an iPhone 3G on a business tariff, will get that upgrade for free. The second iteration of Apple's iPhone goes on sale in 22 countries around the world... [11 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone - the business perspective
News Previously UK enterprises determined to get the 2.5G iPhone had to sign up to an O2 consumer tariff. The 3G iPhone goes on sale this Friday 11 July and the launch hype is already in overdrive - but is the device really going to take the corporate... [10 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone to storm enterprise world, says O2
News Although he would not reveal figures for the number of enterprise users O2 signed up for the original device, Dowd said "a lot of business customers took it on the consumer tariff" - and, as of last week, 130,000 people had registered interest in... [04 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming rates: Expect EC to force cuts
News Despite what Informa dubs a 'last-minute flurry of tariff changes' from operators, it says in a research report that text prices for EU roamers are up to 75 per cent higher than in 2006. Yesterday was the 1 July deadline set by European telecoms... [02 Jul 2008]
T-Mobile UK slashes Euro data roaming costs
News The operator added it will also be introducing tariff options called 'Euro Holiday Boosters' which it says will enable pay monthly and pay-as-you-go customers to control the use of their voice minutes and text allowances and the costs of roaming. [20 Jun 2008]
O2 offers business tariffs for 3G iPhone
News The cost of the 16GB device will range between £135 and free, depending on tariff. Speaking to silicon.com back in February, O2's head of business sales, Ben Dowd, said the company hoped to be able to launch a business tariff "some time this year". [10 Jun 2008]
Orange SME mobile tariffs get a new flavour
News In the tariff refresh, announced yesterday, Solo customers will get a choice of either unlimited calls to UK landlines or unlimited texts. Orange has updated its small-business-oriented mobile tariffs. [25 Apr 2008]
Apple iPhone 'ready for business'
News And users still can't buy the device on a business tariff. O2 UK, which sells the iPhone, said in a statement: "Business customers can still buy an iPhone but they will need to take out a new 18-month consumer contract on an iPhone tariff. [19 Mar 2008]
iPhone making business users smile
News O2 UK recently told silicon.com it is working with Apple on hammering out a business tariff - which it said it is hopeful will launch some time this year. O2 may be concentrating its iPhone efforts on consumers but research suggests it shouldn't... [26 Feb 2008]
Mobile operators hit back over EU data roaming threat
News Tom Phillips, chief government and regulatory affairs officer of the GSMA, said in a statement: "This market is evolving rapidly as operators develop new and innovative services and tariff packages, including flat rate pricing packages and bundles. [11 Feb 2008]
Why O2 isn't willing to share
News On the question of when - or if - O2 will offer a business tariff for the iPhone, Dowd said it is "working with Apple on that" - adding he is "hopeful" such tariffs will arrive "sometime in 2008". Wireless from A to Z [05 Feb 2008]
O2 to introduce new iPhone tariffs
News This tariff restructuring will also affect the current iPhone tariffs, giving existing users on the cheapest £35 per month contract three times more minutes (600) and double the number of texts (400).iPhone owners on a £45 per month contract will... [30 Jan 2008]
O2 cuts price for surfing abroad
News For contract customers, O2's previous tariff per megabyte of data was between £6 and £7.05, depending on the country being visited. The cuts are not dependent on opting into a bundled tariff - a tactic employed by operators until now - but will... [15 Jan 2008]
NHS network pilot to cut call costs
News London trusts are being offered free connections to the N3 Local Gateway Service - allowing them to call each other for free - as part of a pilot and will also get reduced tariff mobile calls through a partnership with mobile network operator O2. [06 Dec 2007]
