Its XT troubles apparently behind it, Telecom has again taken off its gloves in the fight for iPhone users - who represent one of the most lucrative groups of customers in the country.A new offer, posted to Telecom's website this morning, promises a $600
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Its XT troubles apparently behind it, Telecom has again taken off its gloves in the fight for iPhone users - who represent one of the most lucrative groups of customers in the country.
A new offer, posted to Telecom's website this morning, promises a $600 account credit for any iPhone user who moves to XT and signs up to a 24 month One Rate 180 plan or higher
Telecom also promises double the included minutes in your plan for 24 months.
This is Telecom's second time around with a $600 lure. Before its XT blues hit, the carrier poached around 1000 of Vodafone's best customers with the credit offer.
The $600 is designed to counter Vodafone's ability, as Apple's only official carrier, to offer iPhone handset subsidies. It can also offset break-fees.
Vodafone commits to another free data extension
Meanwhile, Vodafone today told NBR that it had no plans "no plans this side of Christmas" to discontinue its free 3GB of data a month for iPhone users.
The free data offer was originally scheduled to expire in September 2009, but has been extended month after month ever since.
Earlier this week, an employee at a design firm said his company was looking at moving all its iPhones to XT.
Pros and cons of switching from Apple's official carrier
It's only worry was that a future operating system software upgrade could break a feature, such as laptop tethering, for those who were not on the official carrier (that is Vodafone).
Told by NBR this was a possibility (it's happened in the past) but that there were unofficial workarounds, he decided to make the jump.
Both Telecom and 2degrees offer the smaller format "MicoSIM" cards needed for an iPhone 4.
All iPhone 3s support two 3G frequencies: the 2100MHz band used by Vodafone and 2degrees in cities, and the 850MHz band used by Telecom's XT nationwide.
Outside big urban areas, an iPhone 3 on Vodafone trips down to 2.5G data speed, giving XT a 3G coverage edge.
The iPhone 4 supports both 850MHz, 900MHz, 1900MHz and 2100MHz 3G frequencies.
