“For the first time, Vodafone Group Plc. is offering its U.K. customers discounts on used smartphones in a new-year push to increase sales of data and stem service- revenue declines,” Amy Thomson reports for Bloomberg.
“The ‘Nearly New’ plan provides savings — of as much as 155 pounds ($251) off the 405-pound price for an iPhone 4 — for pay-as-you-go users, as well as cheaper plans for monthly subscribers, who already get reduced handset prices. Other devices include those made by Samsung Electronics Co. and HTC Corp. that have been returned by customers for resale,” Thomson reports. “The world’s second-largest wireless carrier is targeting higher data consumption as Britain’s weak economy drives declines in call revenue. Vodafone’s sales from U.K. phone plans fell 2.1 percent in the six months through September, partially offset by a 5 percent growth in data revenue.”
Thomson reports, “The phones went on sale in stores yesterday and will be available online next week… The handsets come with a 12-month warranty for customers without a contract and 24 months for monthly subscribers, Vodafone said.”
More information in the full article here.
I don’t know if Apple is trying to perpetrate a swindle here but iPhone 4 lacks Siri, turn by turn directions and a host of other services deemed central to the Apple experience.
Way to go crippling your customer experience, Apple.
Shut up, left nut! You embarrass me!
It’s Vodafone selling their traded-in old iPhones, not Apple. Sheesh, am I the nut with all the brains?
Don’t listen to this left nut sack. He has been afflicted with gonorrhea ever since I know when….
Inflammatory discharge from the urethra or vagina…. In this particular case the foul venereal drivel drip is coming from Ballmer’s Left Nut. Idiot stick is more to the point.
Too much info maaaaan. Just your first sentence could have done the trick.
Proof that, unlike the brain, the hemispherical divide of the nuts attributes logic to the right nut and creativity to the left…
Agree with BLN. Unless there’s a good reason (apart from forced upgrades) I don’t think the iPhone 4 should be crippled like it is.
you two are funny. LMAO
Balmer’s Brain: You two guys were always Mom’s favourites. I only got the leftovers and got picked on for being the dumb one.