So i ordered an iPhone last friday at my work. Today i asked about it to check if all the appropriate forms were available when things arrived so i could get started and have my current contract upgraded and activate the iPhone.
Then things went downhill from there… I appears that with the current TOS i am allowed to upgrade to the iphone contract at any time but not collect an iPhone not even for a higher fee because my current contract is not on it’s end yet. Luck would have it it renewed for 2 years last february. Bummer!
I had our iPhone specialist check the possibilities for me, it seems the only possibility is to end my current contract and buy myself out of it in order to upgrade and ‘deserve’ the iPhone.
Well fuck that… Tomorrow i’m cancelling my order, wait for a few weeks, get a simlock free model from Belgium or something and am seriously considering to go with vodafone for the whole deal. I just have to find a cheap way out of my T-mobile contract, but as things are looking now that’s no biggie as my ‘minimum contract time’ has passed a while ago.
Vodafone has an affordable contract with 50 minutes/TXT messages for €12,50 a month and can be expanded with +/-3mbit internet for €9,50 a month extra. Which is kind of what T-mobile offers except it has 150 minutes instead of the 50 vodafone offers. I don’t need 150 minutes though, so that’s ok. Also 12,50 and 9,50 is cheaper per month than the T-mobile contract. So i spend a lot more on the phone, yea i know… €525 or something, but i think it’s kinda worth it since it’s also an iPod and PDA and stuff. I never expected the iPhone to be €79 anyway, which is T-mobiles price.
[update 2 days later]
Additional research shows that i’m stuck with this contract since renewals aren’t actually renewals but “new” contracts after the old one. Thus i never made over the minimum of 12 months and cannot bail out. So i’m fucked and stuck with T-mobile for the time being. I might as well get an 1st gen iPhone then if i cannot use any of the 3g functions or even GPRS since my Flex contract only has calling minutes and no internet stuff what-so-ever. Bummer!
