The iPhone Virgin Blog

For those of you who prefer to sticking to Starhub and M1, your time is finally here.  Now you can buy the iPhone without having to switch service providers!

I just read this from Yahoo News:

StarHub will make available the iPhone to its subscribers from Wednesday.

It will also offer a range of new 3G mobile plans to meet the different needs of iPhone customers for voice, SMS and data usage.

iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G models will be available for free on the 3G SmartSurf Unlimited plan with a two—year contract. Altogether, four new 3G SmartSurf price plans will be introduced.

Local data usage charges are capped at S$48 monthly. Customers who have pre—registered for the iPhone will be given priority.

Hours after StarHub revealed plans to rollout its iPhones, M1 announced it will do the same this Wednesday.There will be four new iPhone plans offered by M1.

M1 said its iPhone customers will also enjoy call benefits of unlimited free calls to three M1 numbers, per second billing and discounts of up to 35 per cent on subscription fees with the multi—line saver programme.

Local data usage charges are capped at S$36.38, slightly below StarHub’s rates.

In July, SingTel was the first operator to launch the new iPhone 3GS.

Are you rejoicing yet?

At least now there is no monopoly and I bet prices are going to be more competitive in future.  I am still holding on to my iPhone 3G, and do not see a need to upgrade it yet to iPhone 3GS.  Well, let’s see if there will be greater discounts that may tempt me next year.

And yes just to rant, I am really peeved at the multi-sim service I am getting.  There was a day last month where my phone cannot be used at all for 8 hours, from 1 pm to 9 pm!  I can’t use the SMS service as well.  No calls and text messages can be sent outgoing and received incoming, can you believe it?  I was totally cut off from the outside world, nobody could reach me and I didn’t have an extra sim card.  This is the worst experience I have in my 10++ years of using a mobile phone!

When I called the customer service (which took me at least 20 minutes to get through), all they can say is “Network problem” and they suggested that I hard-reset my iPhone again and again.  It was of no help at all and I called a second time (another 20 minutes gone!) to have someone who have totally no idea how he could help me except to wait for the problem to resolve itself.

I am paying extra for this service because I need to surf on my laptop as well, if not I would have scrapped it!  I hope I never have to experience this again.  *touch wood*  Haha.