It’s not too long until we can get our sweat palm on the new iPhone 4, and I must say here in the UK we are quite spoiled with choices. For a start, you can go SIM-Free! When you buy one of the handset from one of the Apple Store on a full price, you get it unlocked! You are free to put any SIM card from any partner network you fancy.
Most of us though, will either already be having some kind of contract with our existing network provider, or to skint to fork for £599 :) In which case we will be happy to go to one of these providers and get the contract there.
But just like blessing sometimes can be a curse, choices can often also be confusing. With at least 3 networks offer a bewildering ranges of prices and tariffs, we can be forgiven to be utterly confused.
But don’t fret! With the help of Google Docs I managed to put together a spreadsheet with details of prices and tariffs from all 3 networks (O2, Orange, and Vodafone) 4 Networks (O2, Orange, Vodafone and Three) all in one place. Here you can play around with the ‘filter’ and find the combination of price and tariff that most suit your situation and need.
As well as the usual data, I also added a column on the Total Cost of Acquisition. This is how much you would have to pay (at least) at the end of your contract.
One small fact that is actually making quite a big difference in the Total Cost of Acquisition and worth to think about is that most networks allow you to change tariff in the middle of your contract (on the 9th month of your 18M, or 12th month on your 24th), so I added 2 columns at the end of the spreadsheet to calculate this too. For O2 (according to what the staff said), they will allow customers to change to ‘any’ iPhone tariff of their choice. I’m not too sure how valid this statement was, because that means we could go from the highest tariff straight down to the lowest tariff. As for the other 2 networks, they only allow customers to change to the tariff one step down.
[Updated]
I knew it’s too good to be true :( So for O2 (I have confirmed), like Orange and Vodafone, you can only go down to one tariff directly below. But here is the thing, you can do this ‘every month’. The spreadsheet is updated with this information, but only with assumption that we are sticking with only one move. I’ll leave you with the more elaborate calculation. Also I haven’t done this calculation for Three, because I haven’t confirmed with them yet if they allow this or not.
Enjoy the spreadsheet, and please let me know if you spot any mistake so I can rectify it quickly.
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