“O2 is the UK’s largest mobile phone operator, with 21million customers, and its stranglehold over the lucrative iPhone market was only broken in September after Apple cut deals with Orange and Vodafone,” The Daily Mail reports. “However rival operator Vodafone will only be able to sell the phones after the New Year, days after O2 released its apology.”
The Daily Mail reports, “Vodafone has been quick to capitalise on O2’s difficulties, and says its network will cope far better with the fast-growing number of smartphones.”
MacDailyNews Note: Vodafone owns 45% of Verizon Wireless which also likes to talk out of its collective ass about how much better its network would cope with iPhones (provided other pioneering networks were first allowed to take the full brunt of iPhone’s massive traffic demands which followup networks such as Vodafone and Verizon Wireless will conveniently never have to face).
The Daily Mail continues, “O2 customers experienced difficulties receiving and making calls in London in the second half of 2009 as smartphone users increased their use of applications that repeatedly pull data off the internet at short intervals. The group said data traffic across the UK was doubling every four months.”
Full article here.
