Orange unveils iPhone 4 tariffs

by Scott Bicheno on 16 June 2010, 13:43

Tags: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Orange (NYSE:FTE)

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Orange is the first UK mobile operator to publish its tariffs for Apple's latest smartphone - the iPhone 4. As ever it's a pretty substantial investment but that's unlikely to dampen sales.

If you want to get a 16GB one for ‘free' you have to sign up to a £75 per month, two year deal. You still have to fork out an additional £29 up-front, on top of committing to £1,800, if you want a 32GB one.

On top of that, Orange is still calling its mobile data offering ‘unlimited' despite clearly capping it at 750MB per month and you have to pay extra for tethering, unless you're on the £75 tariff, and then it's still capped at 3GB.

A possibly better deal is to be had if you pay-as-you-go. Orange is offering the handsets for £19 less than Apple is directly, and you get some mobile data and Wi-Fi thrown in. There are much healthier rates available to business too, as you can see from the screenshots below.

We're not aware of any other operators having gone public with their tariffs at time of writing, although if the Vodafone leak is accurate, it will be considerably cheaper than Orange. As expected, Tesco Mobile has confirmed it too will be flogging the iPhone 4, but there's been nothing from Virgin Mobile yet.

 

 

 

 



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Ouch !! £570 !!
If you want to get a 16GB one for ‘free' you have to sign up to a £75 per month, two year deal.
Looking at the pay monthly chart the “free” iPhone on the £75 tariff is the 8gb 3G S, that can't be right can it?

edit: ignore me I need new glasses, was looking at the 18 month contract
Hexus you might want to amend your statement on the only provider going live with tariffs

http://shop.o2.co.uk/new-iphone/tariffs.html
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Hexus you might want to amend your statement on the only provider going live with tariffs

http://shop.o2.co.uk/new-iphone/tariffs.html

I saw that, but it doesn't have any up-front costs so I assumed it was a generic tariff table.
Errr, £30 a month with a free phone is banging if thats the case