How the hell can Orange do this?

simax

Mandatory bundle is actually remaining for the time being. The requirement will be removed soon though.

Why the big fuss anyway? Why have an iPhone without a data package? What's the point?

diamonds

Well most consumers dont want to pay a premium montly ontop of the premium cost of the handset...moreso when apple are getting a nice cut of the monthly bill.

c_man

simax wrote: »

Mandatory bundle is actually remaining for the time being. The requirement will be removed soon though.

Why the big fuss anyway? Why have an iPhone without a data package? What's the point?

Because some customers on Orange are perfectly happy with their current tariff [which includes data] and want to use this existing tariff with an iPhone, but need a microSIM to do this.

There should be no additional reason to pay £10 extra a month *just* to obtain a microSIM/for using an iPhone, which is what Orange seem to be requesting.

indesisiv

Also more and more phones will be using microSIM this year.
For example if you want the xperia s on the 5th March when it is released you will need a microSIM.
That is definately not an iPhone.

NFH

indesisiv wrote: »

Also more and more phones will be using microSIM this year.
For example if you want the xperia s on the 5th March when it is released you will need a microSIM.
That is definately not an iPhone.

I expect that most phones will be using microSIMs before too long. I remember in the early 1990s when full credit card sized SIM cards were the norm, and when more phones subsequently started needing miniSIMs, people cut them using SIM cutters. The same thing is happening again when space inside phones is at even more of a premium.