O2 put to shame by US carrier's extension of 3G S upgrade eligibility to more customers

AT&T is bringing forward update dates for its customers. Any chance O2 might do the same thing? I guess we better not hold our breath...
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/06/17/atandt-extends-iphone-3g-s-upgrade-pricing-to-many-customers/

AT&T's new policy:

"All of that said, we've been listening to our customers. And since many of our iPhone 3G customers are early adopters and literally weeks shy of being upgrade eligible due to iPhone 3G S launching 11 months after iPhone 3G, we're extending the window of upgrade eligibility for a limited time.

We're now pleased to offer our iPhone 3G customers who are upgrade eligible in July, August or September 2009 our best upgrade pricing, beginning Thursday, June 18."

Some AT&T iPhone 3Gs's have working MMS and tethering

AT&T in the US were not meant to be offering tethering and MMS at launch for 'system upgrade' reasons.

From Engadget

Update: Turns out the secret to enabling MMS and tethering lies buried in the carrier settings file, which happens to be the same black magic employed to roll out 3G MicroCell support a while back. Customer devices are at AT&T 4.0, but there's an AT&T 5.0 profile floating around the interwebs that turns the features on -- it's just a matter of finding it, installing it, and making sure that your account is provisioned for multimedia messaging. Thanks, everyone!