iPhone 3G getting wider carrier availability in UK?

[StefanWolves]

Haha, come on Apple! get the iPhones on orange!

[xxMATTGxx]

Would be great to finally see the iPhone 3G on other networks!

[mat64]

It's nice to have it official I guess, but it's been possible to use the iPhone on other carriers for a while now. I bought my 3G S today from an O2 shop in York (which was the only place in 50 miles that had them in stock, the 16GB variant) and have unlocked it with Ultrasn0w, with it now on my Orange contract sim and working perfectly (well without Visual voicemail), couldn't be happier. No stupid O2 contract with a crap tariff is a great plus.

It's great to have it on other carries officially, but if you really want an iPhone now you could quite easily go and get one from O2 or Carphone Warehouse and you'd be able to do the same as me and many other people. I guess one good thing about this is that Orange could get some decent tariffs in if they get the 3G and enable visual voicemail .

[StefanWolves]

I've unlocked mine, don't know why, it's pointless, I'm on the £35/pm contract, but would still love the iPhone(s) to be on Orange officially.

[Recursion]

It's nice to have it official I guess, but it's been possible to use the iPhone on other carriers for a while now. I bought my 3G S today from an O2 shop in York (which was the only place in 50 miles that had them in stock, the 16GB variant) and have unlocked it with Ultrasn0w, with it now on my Orange contract sim and working perfectly (well without Visual voicemail), couldn't be happier. No stupid O2 contract with a crap tariff is a great plus.

It's great to have it on other carries officially, but if you really want an iPhone now you could quite easily go and get one from O2 or Carphone Warehouse and you'd be able to do the same as me and many other people. I guess one good thing about this is that Orange could get some decent tariffs in if they get the 3G and enable visual voicemail .

Then you have to pay the full price for a PAYG iPhone though, whereas you get it on contract with other carriers if its official for cheaper

[StefanWolves]

Then you have to pay the full price for a PAYG iPhone though, whereas you get it on contract with other carriers if its official for cheaper

Lol, nice one.

[Pyroka]

http://blog.omio.com/handset-news/ip...-in-september/

Found that too, September eh...

[Josh-H]

It's nice to have it official I guess, but it's been possible to use the iPhone on other carriers for a while now. I bought my 3G S today from an O2 shop in York (which was the only place in 50 miles that had them in stock, the 16GB variant) and have unlocked it with Ultrasn0w, with it now on my Orange contract sim and working perfectly (well without Visual voicemail), couldn't be happier. No stupid O2 contract with a crap tariff is a great plus.

It's great to have it on other carries officially, but if you really want an iPhone now you could quite easily go and get one from O2 or Carphone Warehouse and you'd be able to do the same as me and many other people. I guess one good thing about this is that Orange could get some decent tariffs in if they get the 3G and enable visual voicemail .

Enjoy paying £440 for a phone? I don't.

[MrPinkPanther]

It's true. My friend's cousin is high up in o2, gets free tickets to the arena and o2 concerts etc, and he told my friend that the iPhone was coming to other networks soon and it was to be announced later this month/the start of next month. My friend is a genuine guy and not a *********** and I know his cousin does work at o2 because he got us free tickets to concerts before. But I s'pose we will see what happens.

[Tim.]

My iPhone is on Pay as you go - When the warranty expires in just under a year I'll probably either replace it with a new one, or jailbreak it to be able to put it on other networks. But mine is the 3GS so there doesn't seem to be any suggestion that that'll be released on other networks etc. but we'll see!