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How many customers Meteor have lost through not having the iPhone?

  • 19-08-2010 10:43am
    #1
    brophs
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    This isn't a thread slagging them off, I'm just genuinely curious how many customers approx. Meteor might have lost since it became known they weren't going to stock the iPhone.

    I'm guessing it's in the thousands, though perhaps many of their customers are going sim-free and staying with them.

    Is their refusal to stock it a financial or technical issue? Presumably the former, but it surely can't be so expensive to licence the phone from Apple that they'd be willing to lose a good portion of their customer base?


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  • #2
    EL_Loco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭EL_Loco


    meh, iphone, android phones, little difference unless you're a fanboy of either.

    You have apps, you text, take calls and pictures. Plus people seem to have sourced iPhones from the states and jailbroken (jailbreaked?) them.

    I would say it's not bothering them in the slightest.

    EDIT:

    maybe start a poll for people who have moved from meteor for that reason.
    or have stayed with meteor and sourced their iPhone from elsewhere
    or have an android phone from meteor.

    (seeing as it's meteor you're trying to guage the impact on)


  • #3
    brophs
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    EL_Loco wrote: »
    meh, iphone, android phones, little difference unless you're a fanboy of either.

    You have apps, you text, take calls and pictures. Plus people seem to have sourced iPhones from the states and jailbroken (jailbreaked?) them.

    I would say it's not bothering them in the slightest.

    Personally I'd agree. I'm not bothered about either really. I just don't think the iPhone is interchangeable with Android phones (or any phone, for that matter) for some people.


  • #4
    Jofspring
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    Before they might have lost a few but with the iphone being sold sim free from apple now they won't lose many and if anything a lot of people are switching to meteor with their iphones for their better price plans.


  • #5
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Jofspring wrote: »
    Before they might have lost a few but with the iphone being sold sim free from apple now they won't lose many and if anything a lot of people are switching to meteor with their iphones for their better price plans.

    +1


  • #6
    Trust Me
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    I think you could have a point, yeah; they've probably lost a good few customers. I haven't been on them for a while, but their network wasn't really iPhone standard when I was there.


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  • #7
    Gumbo
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    Trust Me wrote: »
    I think you could have a point, yeah; they've probably lost a good few customers. I haven't been on them for a while, but their network wasn't really iPhone standard when I was there.

    well it is now :D
    full 3G coverage in Dublin currently.

    it has one of, if not, the best bill pay plans which include data etc out there.

    im a bit biased obviously as im running my iPhone 4 with Meteor without one single problem (touch wood) :D


  • #8
    Trust Me
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    kceire wrote: »
    well it is now :D
    full 3G coverage in Dublin currently.

    it has one of, if not, the best bill pay plans which include data etc out there.

    im a bit biased obviously as im running my iPhone 4 with Meteor without one single problem (touch wood) :D


    Haha, yeah it probably is now.


    I think that the mark of a network is whether or not it has 3G coverage on the Cork-Dublin train line. :P It's the reason I switched from O2 to Vodafone!


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