“O2 Open” is O2’s offer for the employees of selected corporate accounts. In a nutshell, if you or a friend work for an eligible company, then you can get 30% off any retail monthly tariff or £20 off any pay and go mobile that costs more than £80. Not bad.
It’s for in-store tariffs only (no online or SIMplicity deals), and Blackberrys, XDAs and PDAs are not part of the scheme. Until last Friday, iPhones were also excluded, but that has now changed.
This means you can get a free 8Gb iPhone on the £45/month tariff, which works out to £31.50 a month with the 30% discount applied. That’s pretty tasty!
There must be a gotcha?
From the FAQ: “The scheme is open to all new and present customers with the same deal. However, you cannot cancel your present O2 contract mid-term to join O2 Open.”
Until October 11th, O2 are offering those with existing iPhone contracts the choice to break their existing contract and upgrade to the iPhone 3G. I asked in-store on Friday, and was told that existing iPhone customers can also upgrade using O2 Open!
So: a new phone and I’ll be paying O2 less per month (for more minutes). What’s not to like? Suddenly, I’m not so bothered about missing out on a 16Gb iPhone on day one 