Spanish iPhone Tarrifs Announced: Surprisingly Cheap
Written by admin on July 10th, 2008 in gadgets.
Spain’s Movistar has at last posted its somewhat confusing iPhone prices. The handsets start at €0 for the 8GB iphone on the €60 ($94) per month plan, but on top of that €60 you have to pay another €25 ($39) for the data, which is a fairly decent 1GB per month.
If you choose to pay a little more for the phone, you can have a cheaper monthly rate. If you pay €360 for thew 16GB handset, you can get away with a tiny €9 ($14) voice plan, plus another €15 ($24) for the data (which at this end is just 200MB), coming in at a total of €24 ($38). Curiously, you can’t combine the big data plan with the small voice plan, which, as I speak such terrible Spanish that I never actually call anyone, would be perfect for me.
Another welcome departure from the norm is what happens when you hit your data limit. Instead of geting hit with extra charges, Movistar will just drop your data rate from 128 Kbps to 64 Kbps. As with most other country carriers, the plans give you fee access to Wi-Fi hotspots, in this case Telefonica. I’m actually quite relieved, considering how bad the other European rates are. Of course, this probably has something to do with the slap on the wrist the Spanish telcos recently received from the government for alleged price fixing. See you all at the store in the morning! I’ll be the one with camera and a hangover.
Product page [Movistar. Thanks Pieter!]
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