When the iPhone was released on the Optus network in July last year along with new data plans catered especially for it, i think Optus thought they wouldn’t have any problems…but they did. It wasn’t just the new wave of data usage that the iPhone brought in but another newly released product, wireless broadband. At the time of the iPhone’s release, Optus and other Telco’s chomping at the bit to out price and out measure each other, offering ridulous amounts of data and selling it for virtual nothing, compared to what was being sold 6-12 months before. This along side massive spikes in data use from the iPhone was just not a good mix, performance took a big hit…and they are still suffering in some areas because of it.
Optus was forced to cancel it’s Wireless Fusion bundles after less then a month due to capacity issues, as well as many other quite large hiccups along the way. All in all are they really ready for it to happen all over again? I hope so, I really do, Optus are pouring a lot of money into their network over the next few years with both coverage and speed upgrades, so if they can pull it off and leave the bad stuff from last year behind, and what’s a better way to start the year then to get HTC Dream (G1) exclusively. With the Dream and a better network i really think this could push them in front of Telstra…Especially when they will have a network to match Telstra’s.
