James Wilding's Weblog » o2 http://jameswilding.net Buddhist businessman, freelance web developer Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:38:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 O2 iPhone tethering http://jameswilding.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Posts+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fjameswilding.net%2F2009%2F06%2F19%2Fo2-iphone-tethering%2F&seed_title=O2+iPhone+tethering http://jameswilding.net/2009/06/19/o2-iphone-tethering/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:07:56 +0000 James http://jameswilding.net/?p=122 O2 has published its iPhone tethering rates for the UK (tethering means connecting your laptop to the web using your iPhone’s internet connection). A 3GB connection costs £14.68/month — 10GB is £29.36/month.

The 3GB package is almost five times more expensive than what I pay for home broadband: O2 charges £5/GB, I pay just £1/GB at home.

I’m not saying this out of cynicism (I don’t know the costs involved in mobile phone networking), more out of curiosity. Are these reasonable rates? I’m not sure. I do image, though, that O2 will make a good profit here — and maybe the company is using higher rates to discourage casual users from overloading their network?

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