O2's guru James looking pissed that his boss has made his job a lot harder
We like to keep things upbeat here at The Processor, however I am not going to let this one slide. As momentum gathered for the launch of the new iPhone 4 on the 24th of June, I excitedly signed up to be kept informed of the latest developments from my carrier O2, all of which I hoped would be positive. And then I get this email, linking off to their site to tell me that they were getting rid of ‘unlimited’ data plans!
I could not believe it. That was the ONLY good thing about being on O2, and they just got rid of it! I know that in the grand scheme of things, like child poverty and war, it’s not the biggest of problems to face mankind. But really, in this day and age of a connected world I could not believe that O2 would take such a retrograde step.
Punishing the many, because of a few douchebags.
O2 have said that “just 1% of smartphone users – are using 36% of its total mobile data traffic, and that they needed to be encouraged to change their behaviour.” Great, it’s like just being back at school where one asshole downloads a tonne of porn onto his Macintosh Performa 6320e and the whole computing class is put in detention; but worse because we have to pay at least £30 for the privilege each month.
O2 well done, you have lost yourself a customer.
