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"Tesco will sell the iPhone for £222 with its one-year contract An iPhone price war has been triggered with news Tesco is to sell the iconic device on a £20 a month contract. The entry of Tesco into the iPhone market means that the cheapest way of buying and running one amounts to £462 with a one year contract. This is made up of £222 for one of the original 3G models with an 8GB memory and 12 monthly payments of £20. Over 18 months, the figure would be £582, which is some £43 cheaper than the equivalent deals from current iPhone providers. The supermarket is taking on established mobile phone networks, Orange and O2, in the battle for sales in the crucial Christmas trading period. The pressure to cut prices will be turned up in the new year when Vodafone will also start offering the iPhone. Currently, both Orange and O2 insist on customers signing up for a minimum 18 months for those who buy the iPhone on a contract basis. This means the cheapest way of buying and running an iPhone 3G works out at £624.98 with Orange. That is a handset price of £96.50 and a monthly charge of £29.36. The price with O2, which originally had exclusive rights to sell the iPhone when it was first launched in November 2007, works out at £625.73 for a similar deal. Mobile phone handset prices and tariffs are notoriously complex, which means making a like for like comparison is virtually impossible for consumers. This works to the advantage of the salesmen who routinely blind customers with a myriad of figures in order to push handsets and meet sales targets. The picture is complicated by the fact that the amount of call minutes, texts and internet minutes included in the monthly charge will vary between the networks. Another important factor is the geographical coverage of the network linked to the handset. All the major networks have blackspots which can mean a good value phone is useless if one of these falls over your locality. Tesco will also be offering the iPhone on a pay as you go basis. It will charge £342, which is just £1 less than Orange and O2. Apple's iPhone has changed the entire mobile phone market. Before it arrived, networks were giving expensive handsets away free of charge as part of their contracts. Tesco is selling the iPhone with an 18-month contract for £582, £43 less than equivalent deals from other mobile providers Today, customers have to pay hundreds of pounds for an iPhone if they want to avoid paying ruinously high contract fees. At the same time, it sparked a raft of supposed iPhone killers which have copied its touchscreen technology, such as the Palm Pre and LG Cookie. Today it still leads a host of smart phones that double as music and video players, digital cameras, web browsers and email devices. Tesco will start offering the range of iPhones from Monday. The higher spec 3GS model with a 16GB memory will cost £320 on a 12-month contract of £20 a month. It will be £440 on a pay-as-you go basis. Tesco Mobile services operate over the O2 network which is a partner in the business with Tesco. The firm's chief executive, Lance Batchelor, said: 'iPhone is now available and affordable for all, with the best deals in the UK market. 'This is a fantastic announcement for us and we’re delighted to make iPhone available to our customers. It shows what a serious player in the mobile market Tesco Mobile has become." hmmmmmmmmm, my contracts up for renewal soon. could be tempted.

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watched the goals this morning on SSN. someones transplanted sholas head on ronaldihno's body. i swear...........

good level of tolerance from wiki here

you forgot muslims, hindus, jews, buddhists, straights, people with dodgy squinty eyes, etc., etc............... just trying to provide a balance

what? even the one with 'glandular problems'?

i guess we could start by killing (humanely of course, with a chainsaw) anyone who tucks their white addidas trackies into their socks. just a suggestion..............

this

even more ironic now "Barack Obama is in Norway to pick up the Nobel Peace Prize, just nine days after announcing a troop surge in Afghanistan. The US president will attend the prize-giving ceremony and banquet during which he is expected to talk about the responsibilities of conducting a war. Peace activists in the city are planning a 5,000-strong protest to coincide with the acceptance of the honour, the awarding of which has been seen as controversial given the US-led conflict in Afghanistan and the relatively short tenure of Mr Obama's presidency. White House aides said on Wednesday that the president had yet to finalise his speech. But it has been suggested that the incongruous nature of the timing of the award - little more than a week after Mr Obama ordered 30,000 more soldiers to war - will not be lost on its recipient. White House officials said he would use the opportunity to explain what it means to wage war and the place and responsibility of US leadership. President Obama has reportedly been reading the speeches of past laureates to prepare for his acceptance address."

this, with guthrie moved infield.

Shit manager anyway. as bad as dog tosser Keane imo.

tbf Stevie, ive met quite a few germans. some are funny, some are serious. just like us really. if i had to make a decision tho i would say there are more serious ones than funny ones. maybe national guilt and defeat does this to people? oh, and quite a few of them have bizarre sexual tastes! stilleto heels into your bollocks anyone??

really?

must admit i'm not the EU's biggest fan, so i guess thats as good as any reason to post it. how does that make me a twat? and to clarify, i didnt create the poster/illustration (whatever you would like to call it). therefore i'm not after anybody. i saw it and thought it provocative and so i posted it to see what response it would get. i knew i would get a reaction from the pro EU people on here. thats what discussion is all about. whats the problem? discussion is good. when people turn round and dismiss you instantly as a 'twat', a non believer in the cause or even a 'moron' because you dont think like them, thats just silly. Tbf though, you posted it, were asked a question about it and declined to answer (or rather answered with a question). So much for 'discussion'. Have you thought about moving into politics? many, many times! but i could never be so cruel on an unsuspecting electorate!

must admit i'm not the EU's biggest fan, so i guess thats as good as any reason to post it. how does that make me a twat? and to clarify, i didnt create the poster/illustration (whatever you would like to call it). therefore i'm not after anybody. i saw it and thought it provocative and so i posted it to see what response it would get. i knew i would get a reaction from the pro EU people on here. thats what discussion is all about. whats the problem? discussion is good. when people turn round and dismiss you instantly as a 'twat', a non believer in the cause or even a 'moron' because you dont think like them, thats just silly.

ha ha, very good. love this bit............. class!! "2. Some on Twitter seem to think that buying one single and not another one will topple "capitalist consumerism." Nothing needs to be added to that."

??? i never said they did? if i did say that can you please point it out? Can you please explain the point you were trying to make? if you dont get it then you dont get it. silly, silly boy!

??? i never said they did? if i did say that can you please point it out? He never said you did. Etc.

??? i never said they did? if i did say that can you please point it out?

Press conference, Friday, 3pm?

sorry Tom, but that ( ) is Soooooooooooo wrong!

Feel really sorry for the smoggies involved. Not a very happy chrimbo for teeside. 1,700 jobs to go as Corus mothballs plant Steelmaker Corus has confirmed it will curtail production at its Teesside Cast Products factory, putting 1,700 people out of work. It had been announced in May that the 150-year-old Redcar plant was to be mothballed. The plant had been at risk since a 10-year deal suddenly fell through. Business Secretary Lord Mandelson expressed his disappointment, saying it would be a "very difficult time for the workforce". The plant is due to be mothballed at the end of January. The deal that had fallen through was signed by an international consortium, led by Italian steel specialists Marcegaglia, in 2004, and committed the consortium to buy just under 78% of the Redcar plant's production. Corus said that 1,700 jobs would go, which is about 600 fewer than had been previously thought. It says 2,300 people work at the facility. "The steel industry overall has suffered an unprecedented fall in demand in the global recession," Lord Mandelson said. "The government worked hard with all parties following the cancellation of the main supply contract in May to continue the agreement but a commercial solution could not be found." The underlying cause of the problems at Corus has been a fall in demand for steel products, especially in Europe. Construction and manufacturing companies are buying less. And, as so often before, the world's capacity to make steel greatly exceeds demand. Manufacturing has suffered a sharp loss of jobs during the recession. And although manufacturing represents little more than one-eighth of the UK economy these days, it still generates almost half of our exports. Much of the slab steel produced on Teesside was sold abroad. So the mothballing of the plant is another blow to any hope of narrowing Britain's persistent - and worrying - trade deficit. Corus said it was partially mothballing the plant, shutting its blast furnace, its steel melt shop - which makes slab - and one of the two coke ovens. It will be keeping open the wharf facility that handles imports and shipping, the other coke oven and some of the power generation capacity. The company said operating a merchant slab plant with output of three million tonnes a year was "not sustainable" without a long-term partner. "This is a dark day for British manufacturing," said Derek Simpson, joint general secretary of the Unite union. "Unite will do everything possible to prevent this closure from going ahead. The government must now act to save Teesside as decisively as it acted to save the banks last year." Kirby Adams - the Europe chief of Tata Steel, which owns Corus - confirmed the plant's closure to staff on Friday. He said that Corus had funded the business since May, and at one point, it looked very likely that the plant would close in August. Kirby Adams, chief executive, Tata Steel Europe: "This decision comes with massive human cost" "Corus is not in a position where it can bankroll a loss-making business such as Teesside," Mr Adams said in a press conference. "We are acutely aware that this will be devastating news for our employees, our contractors, their families," he said. "All four members of the consortium should look at this and hang their heads in shame." Corus has made about 1,000 job cuts since January, and announced it was cutting almost 2,000 more jobs at its UK plants - including Teesside as well as Scunthorpe and Rotherham - in June. "This is a gut-wrenching disappointment after all the effort and the hopes won by the sheer doggedness of our workers," said Redcar MP Vera Baird. "I'm furious that, after our workers won months of export orders, Corus has not been able either to get a longer term contract or to clinch a deal for the sale of the plant."

phew, just in time............ Hiccy Burpday fella's!

Yeah, but "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" is the mature and considered response to Simon Cowell's one-man campaign to rape all music. Or something. best retort in fookin AGES!!