Twitter has been simmering this morning with news that Orange is going to be selling the iPhone 3GS in the UK by the end of the year.
Now, despite numerous complaints about the service that iPhone users have received under O2, their use of Twitter to quickly respond to and work with users has been pretty impressive: http://twitter.com/o2.
But Orange doesn’t seem to be too far behind. Only hours after the announcement, @conorfromorange has been tweeting and keeping excited iPhone fans abreast of latest developments.
And the iPhone microsite he mentions is a smart move from the carrier, building on the social media buzz that has accompanied the announcement and capturing data about potential customers, even though the phone isn’t available yet.
Personally, as someone that moved from Orange (the only carrier I had ever had a phone with) to O2 when the iPhone launched, I don’t really have any complaints with O2.
But the competition can only be a good thing and will hopefully push prices down.
