O2 the official carrier for the iPhone in the UK have announced today a restructuring of iPhone tariffs which will take effect on the 1st February 2007.

£35 and £45 a month tariffs see an increase in minutes and texts included in the allowance with a new tariff of £75 available with an included allowance of 3000 minutes and 500 texts a month.

All existing iPhone customers will be upgraded to the new tariffs automatically by mid March at the latest.

From the O2 website

Existing Customers

As an existing iPhone customer, we are really pleased to tell you that we are upgrading your existing iPhone tariff during February and you will benefit by mid March at the latest.

You will receive a text message from us by 7th February 2008.

• Existing £35 iPhone customers

We will be automatically upgrading you to the new £35 iPhone tariff which offers you 600 anytime minutes and 500 anytime texts a month. You will also continue to receive unlimited* UK data. All of this will

be done for you without you having to do a thing and we’ll text you to let you know when it’s been done. Thank you for being an O2 customer.

• Existing £45 iPhone customers

We will be automatically upgrading you to the new £45 iPhone tariff which offers you 1,200 anytime minutes and 500 anytime texts a month. You will also continue to receive unlimited* UK data. All of this will be done for you without you having to do a thing and we’ll text you to let you know when it’s been done. Thank you for being an O2 customer.

• Existing £55 iPhone customers

We will be reducing the price of your 1,200 anytime minute iPhone tariff from £55 to £45. You will continue to get 500 anytime texts and unlimited* UK data at this new price. All of this will be done for you without you having to do a thing and we’ll text you to let you know when it’s been done. Thank you for being an O2 customer.

* subject to excessive usage policy