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Story: Apple launches iPhone in the UK
Does O2 do EDGE?
Juian,
You might have seen EDGE in your particular location but when I asked O2 for a definitive answer as to where/when it's available they either didn't know or wouldn't say!
Search for EDGE on the O2 web site -- you get nothing! Ask their sales people -- they don't know what you're asking about. E-mail their support staff and you get no response.
Figures available from other sources suggest that their coverage is less than 30% of the UK and mainly concentrated on London and the home counties.
So 70% of the UK don't have EDGE -- so can't get e-mail or web browsing on an iPhone without a personal WiFi network -- so would do better with the bottom of the range Nokia (that can get e-mail over the "plain old telephone system").
The cloud has some WiFi points, but I don't want to travel 12 miles (during opening hours only) to the nearest one -- in a pub -- to read my mail. I want to get it while I'm on the move.
If only someone from either Apple or O2 would give a definitive answer to the EDGE availability in the UK question that would be great -- but they don't, so it's a chocolate fireguard (to change the metaphor slightly).
Then again, a blackberry CAN give me my mail almost anywhere. Where did you get yours?
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