Rumors were heating up about iPhone 4 hitting UAE last week. A day after Etisalat made their launching plan, Du also announced their launch with some competitive pricing. You can now own an iPhone for just 0 AED to 2399 AED depending on the plan and model you select. So we’re not going to repeat the whole spec sheet for you. Both networks started selling on Saturday the 25th. Etisalat has packages from Dh99 up to Dh449 a month, and you either pay Dh2,049 for the handset upfront or take it in instalments inside one of those packages. Existing 3G and 3GS postpaid users have an upgrade route too, and remember its a micro SIM, so the old one sitting in your 3GS wont fit.
du came in with Elite Super 100 at Dh100 a month, which gets you 100 national minutes, 100 international minutes, 100 SMS and 100MB of data. Or theres the Dh25 Elite Plan with 55 minutes, 55 SMS and 5MB. Buy the iPhone on an iPlan and your data is free for 12 consecutive months. Prepaid folks, top up Dh100 and 1GB is yours the next month. Business customers get the Dh300 Business Super Plan, and the handset there is Dh699.
Not bad when people here were paying up to Dh6,000 for grey market units. If you grabbed one over the weekend, tell us which plan you picked in the comments.
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