Vodafone has won the right to sell the iPhone in the UK, just a day after O2 Orange broke two years only to hold the device in one step, it is likely the result of the price war among the three major networks UK Mobile.
But under the agreement, Vodafone has now confirmed, the company will lay hands on the phone before the start of next year ie after christmas. The effort to prevent defections of customers, meanwhile, offered by Vodafone before registering online for the device.
T-Mobile, however, seems to have cooled on the idea of a storage unit, while the decision on unlocked cell imported from other European countries and sell them to people interested in uncovering the O2 is believed to have caused the wrath of Apple .
The addition of Great Britain and Ireland will increase the number of countries in which Vodafone offers the iPhone in 13 The company has long said he wanted to put his hands on the device, but broke the original game to secure an exclusive contract, because of high demands of technology companies in California.
To secure the exclusive rights to the device in O2 UK had agreed to share some recipes that made his clients now. The rate is very high, it was necessary to Vodafone, which instead decided to focus their attention on a unit with a closer relationship with RIM, the maker of BlackBerry e-mail. However, the first phone to come out of this partnership, the BlackBerry Storm was destroyed by critics for its management is difficult to achieve. Twitter account, as a gadget-lover Stephen Fry, the phone is horrible and ashamed . A new much improved version of the device is expected soon.
But under the Vodafone New Deal did not pass all the current revenue from Apple. Neither party to the agreement, Orange has signed. Consequently, the flexibility of both companies over prices, which should have reduced prices for customers, although there are still a long-term contract.
But the fact that Apple has done a two year break clause in the five-year contract with O2 concludes that initially his partner are able to renegotiate the contract. Consequently, the largest UK O2 mobile phone network should retaliate in a price war. O2 insiders say the company is willing to stop the exclusive right for a while. It is already wrapped another hotly anticipated handset, the Palm before, with an exclusive contract for the purchase of Christmas and will be published next month.
Other manufacturers of mobile phones also warned that the expansion of the availability of the iPhone will be many networks the next 12 months, a very interesting time in the field of wireless communications and, ultimately, consumers should benefit.
