3G goes pre-pay

Fair play to Vodafone, it's not letting anything as trivial as a ropey network from rolling out its 3G services to the masses. Today, Voda announced it would start selling 3G phones to pre-pay customers.

The range comprises the five handsets already available to post-pay chumps, I mean, subscribers - costing from €150 to €500. It includes the decidedly buggy Nokia 6610 but also its rather attractive successor, the 6680.

Also new today was Vodafone's tardy fulfillment of full-track music downloads, first promised for the 3G launch back in November. The catalogue and pricing can't hold a candle to iTunes, etc (only 250,000 songs, tied to your phone and €2 each) but no doubt some people will find buying tunes on the move attractive.

Hopefully, Vodafone will post more details of pricing, etc, on its site soon.