O2 sees "unprecedented" demand for iPhone 3G

Comments

• But what about the activation issue? Ever since the phone was announced, all the news has said that all phones must be activated in store but O2 say you can activate them online. It seems strange that no articles have picked up on this. AT & T still say instore activation only. Posted by Mat, UK
• The web site simply didn't work; at least 95% of attempts to order were cut off by another crash, yet a few orders were still getting accepted at 13:00. I received seventeen "upgrade code" texts during the morning, but none of them got past choosing 8/16GB and tariff. The site must have been rebooted hundreds of times during the morning. Posted by sleepy, uk
• O2 dont give two hoots about their site crashing, nor do they care that current iphone owners got totally stuffed when the upgrade site crashed and burned whilst new customers simply sailed through the process to lap up what must have been pitifully meager supplies indeed.
  
  But then, what's a few thousand disgruntled early adopters when you got exclusivity on a device millions are likely to want.
  
  They just succeeded in peeing off their loyal customers in pretty much the same way Apple did in the states when they dramatically reduced the price shortly after launch.
  
  Roll on multiple carriers of iPhone here in the UK. The day will come, particularly since O2 couldn't organise a knees up in brewery!
  
  I hope Apple bite them on the butt for this. Posted by josho, UK