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Subscribers who sign up for a 24-month contract can purchase an 8GB iPhone 3G for about $377 ($2938 HKD) or a 16GB model for around $479 ($3738 HKD) when choosing a $24 ($188 HKD) per month service plan that includes 500 basic minutes, 500 heart-to-heart minutes, 25 multimedia content messages, 15 text content messages, 500 MB of data usage and unlimited Intra SMS messages.
A $34 per month plan subsidizes the 8GB iPhone to $233 ($1738 HKD) and the 16GB model to $326 ($2538 HKD) and includes 800 basic minutes, 900 heart-to-heart minutes, 40 multimedia content messages, 25 text content messages, 500 MB of data usage and unlimited Intra SMS messages.
Stepping up to a $42 per month plan reduces the cost of the 8GB iPhone to $128 ($938 HKD) and the 16GB model to $223 ($1738 HKD) and bundles 1500 basic minutes, 1200 heart-to-heart minutes, 50 multimedia content messages, 35 text content messages, 500 MB of data usage and unlimited Intra SMS messages.
Subscribers who opt for 3's top-tier plan at $64 per month get an 8GB iPhone for free, or a 16GB for less than $20 ($138 HKD). The plan includes 2200 basic minutes, 1500 heart-to-heart minutes, 150 multimedia content messages, 50 text content messages, unlimited data usage and unlimited Intra SMS messages.
Readers can compare these plans to those recently announced by Rogers of Canada, TeliaSonera of Sweden, and Netcom of Norway.
iPhone 3G service plans offered by "3" in Hong Kong.
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Interesting - The phone plan mentions media content, presumably MMS messages. Either they haven't updated their phone plans to account for the fact that the iPhone lacks this feature, or they just leaked a feature not yet announced. Hoping for the latter, but I'm tired of hoping for features for the iPhone that never come.
500MB of data is worse than Rogers. Why do carriers ignore that the iPhone is a phone THAT BROWSES THE WEB. Sigh.
At least with AT&T, they have a 5GB soft-cap that would require epic web-surfing to use up.
Is it possible that a carrier could write an APP for the phone that could send MMS over it's own network?
Fact is that HK has such high population density that the whole 3G data thing isn't important. They have WiFi EVERYWHERE - if you're signed up for internet in your home then you generally have WiFi access anywhere and everywhere in the city.
the benefits of living in big, dense asian cities :-)
500MB of data is worse than Rogers. Why do carriers ignore that the iPhone is a phone THAT BROWSES THE WEB. Sigh.
At least with AT&T, they have a 5GB soft-cap that would require epic web-surfing to use up.
Yeah but the $64/month plan gets you both a free iPhone and unlimited data. That's far better than AT&T, let alone Rogers.