News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
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Details of Optus’ pricing plans for the upcoming release of the iPhone 3G S are available, and it has been revealed on forum Web site Whirlpool that the telco is to charge for iPhone tethering.
Last week, an Optus spokesperson confirmed the carrier will allow its subscribers to use the iPhone's tethering application; now however, the included iPhone data allowance will not be able to be used for data tethering.
The third-generation of Apple's iPhone allows “tethering”—where the phone can be used as a 3G mobile broadband modem.
Now Optus customers will face extra charges, $15 for 500MB according to Gizmodo, to use this function.
We don't normally run rumour stories in AMW, but this one's getting a bit too loud to be dismissed as rumbling. The Apple reseller "grapevine" has been abuzz this morning, with numerous sources now telling AMW that the iPhone will be released at the end of June or the beginning of July. While there has been no official public announcement from Apple yet, it is believed that the company has briefed its resellers on more detailed plans. Among the other tidbits: no network will have exclusivity and any Apple reseller — not just telecommunication resellers or Apple-owned stores -- will be able to sell it.
Matthew JC. Powell | Apr 9, 2008
Following hot on the heels of last week's announcement by Vodafone that it would carry the iPhone in ten countries including Australia and New Zealand, without actually saying when, or what model, or what features, or whether it would be exclusive, or anything, Optus has announced that it, too, will be selling the iPhone in Australia. Like Vodafone, it has refrained from announcing when it will bring the iPhone to Australia, and it has held off saying anything about wether it will be 3G or not. The fact that there have now been two announcem,ents more or less settles the exclusivity question though.
Matthew JC. Powell | May 12, 2008
The imminent launch of the much-coveted 3G iPhone in Australia has had the wires and internet forums abuzz for months now. One of the most discussed subjects is the matter of which telecommunications network providers and resellers or retailers will partner Apple, and what the likely conditions of acquiring a shite and briny new iPhone down under might be. Optus and Vodafone have made their announcements — Telstra and Three are yet to show their hands. And persistent rumours before the WWDC that Mac resellers would be able to sell iPhones have proven as yet unfounded.
Fleur Doidge | Jun 12, 2008
One of the things you can guarantee in the Australian communications marketplace is that any time you get a major move by one player, one of the others will start complaining about statements and actions. With IDC predicting 1.3 million 3G iPhones, or thereabouts, coming to Australia in the next five years — and Telstra not currently one of the beneficiaries of Apple's latest offering — we were sure to hear something from the big Australian carrier.
Tony Williams | Jun 16, 2008
App Store developers will now be able to reach customers in 13 new countries, according to an announcement on the iPhone Developer Program news page.
