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So, Mac-fans, it seems that at the eleventh hour, O2 have caved to the demands I made a fortnight ago.
The ‘unlimited’ service they promised will now be without any limits - a victory for pedantic semanticists across Great Britain. A great day for the modern world, and a surprising flip-flop on the part of O2. Alas, for them, it comes too late. I have already resigned myself to buying and hacking my iPhone, and living out the rest of my contract with T-Mobile, whose EDGE infrastructure is better anyway. Good effort, though, kids.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Yayyy! The big goons.
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:28 pm
And this is how they’re doing it:
“it seems O2 have a proxy server that replaces content on the fly to speed up web-over-EDGE performance. This includes downgrading images, and removing any references to Mp3’s”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/iphone_podcasts_1_week_on.shtml