According to Marie Boran
John Collins said: a lot of speculation at the moment about an irish iphone release. i have the story but am sworn to secrecy.
It is O2 in my opinion. I’ve been meaning to write a post about the iPhone to explain why you shouldn’t bother unlocking it for a network operator that doesn’t support EDGE. The iPhone is absolutely fantastic for lots of reasons that I’ll go into later in another post. The browser is
Don’t bother with the iPhone if it means browsing on a network that doesn’t support EDGE. It’s not just dreadfully slow, it doesn’t actually work most of the time.
So, with that in mind, O2 Ireland is the only choice for Apple. O2 Ireland (as far as I know) is the only operator in Ireland to support EDGE.
I noticed Damien Mulley blogged about this just before I put finger to keyboard and his argument is more compelling.