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Vodafone Portugal’s iPhone 3G rates

By | July 7, 2008, 10:22am PDT

Summary: Vodafone Portugal just posted these iPhone 3G rates. Notice the paltry 250MB of downloads permitted. (Tip: Neal Hoskins).

Vodaphone Portugal’s iPhone 3G rates

Vodafone Portugal just posted these iPhone 3G rates. Notice the paltry 250MB of downloads permitted. (Tip: Neal Hoskins).

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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RE: Vodafone Portugal's iPhone 3G rates
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Iphone pricing in Portugal-robbery
portugalsa 7th Jul 2008
This is a complete hijack! Worst pricing for the iphone until now! The prices on the other carier in Portugal (Optimus/Orange) are equally insane! High pricing for the phone and really high prices each month, with little included (100 min+100SMS+250 or 500Mb of traffic).
Really lousy!
And the Canadians and Italians were upset. What about the portuguese? I really hope the news gets to Steve. Maybe he can do something about it.
It won't sell well here in Portugal, I can garantee it!
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RE: Vodafone Portugal's iPhone 3G rates
russguill 7th Jul 2008
Apple's got a real problem with all these carriers totally
gouging the consumer. I hate to say this but I could see 3G
sales way down because of these prices.

Are we slowly working our way to a fully unlocked iPhone I
could take to any compatible carrier?
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robbery
tiagorosado Updated - 7th Jul 2008
Despite i'm a big fan of Apple, and by that converting friends and family around, i'll never buy, or advice, the iphone with these plans: they are horribly expensive and totally outside of what is being practiced abroad.
My only wish is that nobody buys the iphone in order to make a stand against the carriers.

TM
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Don't forget the portuguese minds...
minimalistic 8th Jul 2008
Altough the price is obviously obscene, portuguese folks will still buy it. Because common minds here in Portugal need to have something that the fellow person doesn't have. Even if it is a golden gadget the it's unusable because of the rates.

Many people will end up with a golden brick. Using the same features that any 30USD mobile phone can do. Ok, a few more features, but not the online ones...
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RE: Vodafone Portugal's iPhone 3G rates
gilbertovp 8th Jul 2008
There's already a online petition against the Vodafone pricing in Portugal: http://www.petitiononline.com/iphoneRR/petition.html

Gilberto Padilha
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RE: Vodafone Portugal's iPhone 3G rates
ohenry005 13th Jul 2008
Hi boys I phone is the best phone around
if you want a nice car you have to pay
for if its much don't buy yet price will come down when their
Packts are full in Canada they want 3 years contract
The best price will around $100.00 per month

Let's go to United Sates price is realy good chek At&t $60.00
per month 450 mintues anytime 5000 after hours all data you can
use plus voice mail plus text plus call ID. I hope one day they can
help apple fans.
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RE: Vodafone Portugal's iPhone 3G rates
ohenry005 13th Jul 2008
Rogers they don't let me upgrade to 3g
yet because only on nov they will let
me buy one they have to grab others first
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