Comments on: Think Rogers iPhone plans are unfair? Try living in Sweden

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:00:17 +0000

Oh man, I love the Sony Ericcson. When I learned they came from Sweden, I was proud.

By: JuDas

JuDas — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:31:06 +0000

PS – seems like we in Sweden are getting some ‘choice’ lovin’ at least:
http://www.macworld.com/article/138948/2009/02/iphone_scandinavia.html?lsrc=rss_news

I’ll wait to see what the service plan is like in comparison between the two, but I’m not holding out much hope of a drop in prices.

By: JuDas

JuDas — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:00:57 +0000

I’m still fuming about the restrictions in Sweden (and most parts of the world) where we’re locked into a certain service provider for the iPhone. Lets face it, if buy a car how ridiculous would it be to be told that I can only use fuel from a certain service station!! At the end of the day it’s all about greed and it’s not just the service providers.
I refuse to subscribe to this, especially when I can buy pretty much most other mobile phones without a contract – my Nokia N95 for example. In certain countries in Europe and the Mediterranean service providers are BY LAW not permitted to lock users into contracts on handsets. I see a trip abroad this summer just to be able to buy an iPhone from one of these countries… I will certainly not be buying one in Sweden.

By: Hellbent

Hellbent — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:40:01 +0000

Hmmm… What to do… Why not buy an iTouch and another normal cellphone?
iPhone is only special because of its touchscreen and fancy looks, but HTC and other manufacturers are entering the field with either similarly good phones, or better, even.
Apple’s products are cool and sleek, yes, and normally they function well, but they are insanely expensive “said the man, writing this on a MacBook Pro…”
But this isn’t about Apple, but the carriers. I blatantly refuse to spoonfeed my carrier with money for a service that I can equally well, or better!, get on my laptop. I always bring it with me, it sports a 15.4″ widescreen (bite me, iPhone!), and as long as there is a LAN available, I won’t have to use insanely expensive services that leaves a foul taste in my mouth.. With a headset, I even have free phoneservice anywhere in the world through one of several programs online! And who wants to watch porn on a measly little shitscreen, when you can get the full cumshot on a glorious 15″ widescreen? Come on..!
Cellphone companies have greedy greedy GREEDY fat little sausagefingers, and I for one will fight their policies everystep of the way. 0,59 NKr (approx USD 40 cents, depending) for a textmessage? One textmessage cost around 0,07 NKr to revieve and send to recipient. Prices are being lowered, but the is still SO much leeway. I’m ranting, now. Sorry..

By: jrc

jrc — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:52:22 +0000

Actually, to be fair, Telia’s prices are comparable to AT&T’s prices. I just checked.
Remember that U.S. retail prices do not include taxes and fees.

AT&T
24-month contract required
$69.99/mo: 450 min anytime, 5000 min night/weekend, 0 SMS, unlimited data
($199 + 8.5% California sales tax) + (($69.99/mo * 24) + ~13% service fees & taxes) = $2114 for 24 months
Add 200 SMS at $5/mo + fees & taxes = $2250 for 24 months

Telia
18-month contract required
“iMini”: 100 min anytime, 100 SMS, 100 MB data
1695:- + (299:-/mo * 24) = 8871:- for 24 months –> $1418 for 24 months
Add unlimited data (“Prisavtal Fastpris”) at 199:-/mo = 13647:- for 24 months == $2182 for 24 months

So over 2 years, AT&T charges $2250 and Telia charges $2182 (with less voice).
I’d say that’s comparable.

Plus AT&T doesn’t give you the option NOT to have unlimited data. Since I’m usually around Wi-Fi, my data usage has been less than 100 MB per month, so that makes Telia’s cheapest option even cheaper than AT&T’s.

By: fia

fia — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:43:07 +0000

The phone isnÂ´t THAT good – this will never last…

I have one from USA that looks good but it brake down my calls all the time :((

By: ElZorab

ElZorab — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:43:24 +0000

Hi, I’m from Romania and when I saw this I said to myself wtf …
I just wanted to compare this with something that I can find in my country:
HTC Touch Diamond -> a verry beautifuul phone that have everything an iphone has 359 â‚¬
100 minutes => 13 â‚¬/month
100 MB => 8 â‚¬/month

=> if we calculate this => 863 â‚¬ => in 2 years

compared to ~1600 that is the cheapest that I se in here.

From my point of view I see only one solution to solve this problem: don’t buy it. It will hurt the and it will hurt them really bad.

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Iphone 2 isn’t yet present in my country(I still have to wait a month or 2) and I was verry enhusiastic about it, but when I see what happents in other countries I think that I will just quit at the ideea to buy one.

By: stefan

stefan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:24:57 +0000

I saw that, I think the new options are really nice compared to what they have offered in round one. I’m going to do a short write up about it later tonight.

By: Brona

Brona — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:16:06 +0000

Telia announced more options for iPhone buyer’s earier today.

http://www.idg.se/polopoly_fs/1.170685!imageManager/999951307.png

By: joduba

joduba — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:59:05 +0000

In Switzerland, Swisscom is doesn’t have an unlimited data plan, for professionals and companies, the maximum included download is 250Mb for the maximum rate. (45 CHF/month aprox 45$/month)…

You can end paying the moon if you decide to browse a little bit.