O2 Ireland is "in negotiations" with Ebay to put the auction website on its i-mode Wap service, a spokesman has told Yourtechstuff. The service is about to go live on O2's British i-mode portal. I-mode is a shopping portal technology imported from Japan by O2 to rival 3G. Current services on O2's i-mode-compatible phones include BuyandSell, Car Buyers' Guide and Daft.ie. O2 is expected to roll out 3G services later this year.
O2 Ireland would want to get their act together with I-Mode and data costs in general. Their current charge of 1cent per kilobyte would cost Eur10 for 1 megabyte of browsing. Browsing Paddypower on I-mode the other day cost me Eur1.50 just for looking at a couple of matches and placing a bet! O2 UK on the other hand include 1 meg a month as inclusive on their packages. Not only that, they offer another 2 megs for £3 a month. When I rang the O2 Ireland helpline and queried the difference in value, an unusually honest chap at O2 said to me "sure what do you expect, there's no competition in Ireland so why would we". Can't argue with that!
Posted by: stephen | February 09, 2006 at 07:14 PM
Same old story, Stephen.
Posted by: Adrian | February 11, 2006 at 10:35 PM