16 Sept, £349.99/£399.99 with 12 months free 3G and wifi data access.
http://www.o2.co.uk/iphone/paygo
iPhone 3G is coming soon to Pay & Go
Pay & Go customers can now enjoy the iPhone 3G without a monthly contract. The new iPhone 3G 8GB for Pay & Go will be available for £349.99 and the 16GB version for £399.99.
This also includes unlimited browsing and Wi-Fi for the first 12 months after you activate your iPhone 3G*. At the end of the 12 months you can continue to receive unlimited browsing and Wi-Fi for just £10 per month. We’ll notify you before the end of the 12 month period by text and you can easily unsubscribe if you choose to do so.
It will be available to buy from 16th September in O2 stores, The Carphone Warehouse and Apple stores.
Please note visual voicemail and call merging are not available with Pay & Go. You’ll also need to change your data settings to use services such as Mobile Internet. Take a look at the activation tab on this page for more information.
That doesn’t seem to be a bad deal at all for such a premium handset, especially with the 12 months free unlimited data access thrown in. The PAYG phone also comes with o2’s Favourite Place tariff set up, so if you top up by £10 a month you also get 500 minutes free per month to any UK landline or o2 mobile, outside of the standard call costs. In fact, if you ‘do the math’, as they say, the PAYG deal could work out cheaper than a standard £35 contract, especially if you’ve no use for the cross-network minutes to other mobiles. And you’re not tied in for 18 months, of course.
But I’ll leave you to do that particular ‘math’ for yourself. I don’t want to for fear of taking the shine off the bars of my new 18-month parole-free sentence contract: I was just beginning to feel all smug in here.
