O2 rejigs tariffs

O2 HAS GIVEN its Iphone call tariffs a makeover, with cheaper pricing and more calls on offer.

The £35 tariff, which previously offered just 200 minutes per month, now gets tripled up to 600 - and text messages raised from 200 to 500. The £45 tariff, which used to have 600 minutes and 500 texts now has 1200 minutes and 500 texts. This is the same as the old £55 tariff, which now goes the way of the dodo.

The move comes as part of O2's wider strategy to simplify all its price plans. The firm will now sell just six different tariffs - the two already mentioned, as well as 75/125, 200/200, 400/500 and 3000/500.

Of course, nothing is quite as simple as it seems - prices vary depending on the length of the contract you take out, and you can also have 'bolt-ons' for text and picture messages.

Users who have already forked out for the phone will get their tariffs upgraded automagically. Which is nice. µ