iPhone – Orange Is On Sale this Month

Orange says it will start selling iPhones on monthly contracts and pay as you go on 10 November. The iPhone 3G will be from free on a £30-per-month contract and the iPhone 3GS will be from free on a £45-per-month contract — both for two years.

And if you’re an international movie star or Formula 1 driver, a new ‘traveller’ bundle will include roaming data and calls for an astonishing £125 per month. All plans included ‘unlimited’ data, with a fair-use policy of just 750MB per month. You can add tethering — so you can surf your iPhone’s connection using your laptop — for £5 per month.

For pay as you go people, the iPhone 3G will cost half the number of the beast, £333, if you top up by £50 when you buy it. That’ll get you 250MB of data each month, plus a year of access to the BT Openzone Wi-Fi network.

Compare those prices to the iPhone’s home of yesteryear, O2. On O2, you can pick up an iPhone 3G from free on a £34.26-per-month contract, with the iPhone 3GS costing from free on a £44.05-per-month contract, both for two years.

For all the gory details on contracts, check out Orange’s online pre-order page and O2′s Web site.

By Flora Graham