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Tesco Mobile through its joint venture partnership with O2 is pleased to announce that it will shortly introduce iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in Tesco Phone Shops and online through Tesco Direct in the UK.

For further information and for customers interested in pre-registration please visit http://www.tescomobileiphone.com/.

For more information on iPhone, please visit www.apple.com/uk/iphone.

More information can be found on Tesco Mobile at http://www.tescomobile.com/

About Tesco Mobile:

Tesco Mobile is a 50:50 joint venture between Tesco and O2. The company sells exclusively Tesco Mobile branded services in Tesco stores, online and through Tesco Direct, across the UK using O2’s technology and network.

Tesco Mobile is also available in the rapidly expanding estate of Tesco Phone Shops which will number over 100 by the end of 2009.

The network gives its customers value, simplicity and choice, offering them award winning, simple, great value Pay as you go and Pay monthly tariffs with rewards such as free credit and Clubcard points.

It is the fastest growing Pay as you go network in 2009 and has been voted as the number one mobile network for customer satisfaction by Which Magazine (May 09).

02 are going to employ a new “traffic management” system on its broadband facilities

Bewteen the hours of 8PM and 11PM customers will notice that the following traffic is restricted and will run slower

File-sharing:

• BitTorrent
• Blubster
• Gnutella
• KaZaA
• WinMX_6688
• WinMX_6699
• eDonkey
• Filetopia
• eDonkey_UDP
• Hotline
• Hotline_1234
• DirectConnect
• GuruGuru
• Soribada
• Soulseek
• Ares
• Rodi
• JoltID
• eMule_UDP
• Waste
• Konspire2b
• ExoSee
• FurthurNet
• MUTE
• GNUnet
• Nodezilla

Newsgroups:

• NNTP
• NNTPS
• TAC_News
• Audio_News
• NTalk
• NetNews
• NAS
• DDI
• Giganews

The problem i see with this is that alot of letgitimate traffic in the linux community is over bit torrent, a lot of applications are distributed over torrents.

Yet again another 02 business dicates its ruling, stuff their customers. – HERE’S  NEW IDEA, UPGRADE YOUR NETWORK.

02 Currently have only 400, 000 customers, so how come other ISP’s manage just fine? Yet another reason why 02 will not see any of my business, im just fed up with their dicatatorship!

Full 02 ruling here http://broadband.o2.co.uk/home/traffic.jsp