Well done NeoRicen,
informative and good looking too..
Made on a Mac.

When the iPhone plans are announced I've got a Numbers document just waiting for me to plug data into it.

That's it but with Blackberry plans from Optus and Vodafone plugged in as an example. I chose blackberry plans because iPhone plans could be similar.

It's interesting just looking at them though, Optus charges you for the phone, but you get unlimted data. Vodafone only has unlimted email but you get the phone completely free.

An interesting thing in Vodafone's terms of service is that if you don't activate the phone and hold on to it (meaning you got it for free), they send you a bill for $350. So if the iPhone is subsidised and free on Vodafone don't think not activating it will get you a free phone.

A question I meant to ask earlier, actually. I had my Blackberry getting email sent to it from my work system using the Blackberry Internet Server at Vodafone.

Will there be a similar system, or will it either be push email direct from enterprise servers and/or pull email?

Kevin

Apple doesn't have their own (at the moment) way of getting Push email. Leaked details from the SDK suggest .Mac will get push email, but no indication of whether or not carriers will offer .Mac email with their plans. My guess is they won't and the only way you will be able to get Push email on the iPhone is to have an Exchange email server, or to sign yourself up to .Mac and direct your normal Mail account to .Mac.

Thanks for putting in the effort, people like you make this forum great

Thanks for that information, it is good just to know for normal phones and will be very useful when you add the iphone plans

Quick question: is it actually likely that the iPhone will be released on a plan as cheap as $49 p/month? From what I've heard, it's probably going to be closer to $80...

I reckon so. They will have plans to suit most people e.g. $49 to $69+ a month for 24 months or whatever.

If you're a sucker and use the plans they offer.

Two possibilities are that if you pay upfront you can get a $49 cap because they don't need to charge so much to subsidise. Even if they do subsidise they could use the BlackBerry model which is a $49 Cap but $30 for the phone, email and data (like Vodafone and Optus do now), so it IS a $49 cap, but you're spending $80 a month.

if Telstra can offer the Hiptop plan $30/month for unlimited Data (web, email, sms, MSN etc) why couldn't they do something like that for the iPhone?

Because they won't have the iPhone.*

*Not saying they won't, but if they don't then that would be a reason.

Also, the iPhone will almost undoubtedly be more popular than the HipTop, so maybe Telstra can't afford (yeah right, but that will be their excuse) to give all iPhone customers unlimited data.

Optus gives unlimited data on the BlackBerry, so maybe they'll give something similar to the iPhone, but the blackberry is only 2G and has a crappy browser, so they don't expect people on unlimited data plans to use much data.

This artical is very impressive. i heard the other day through a really good source that vodafone is coming out with a new $69 cap that contains the $49 cap and a 2gb data plane. We will find out soon if it is really true may be in time for the Iphone.

If not that it will be something similar, I'll be putting out something like this for iPhone plans when they're announced.

How does this work mate? Colour me interested!

Excellent work again NeoRicen. many thumbs up.

It's all about waiting to see what plans are announced but your work is the best insight into the current "space" I've seen.