Who Will Be The Carrier For the iPhone In Europe?
07.05.07 - 01:39pm
The iPhone is proving to be everything competitors feared it would be - sleek, cool and selling like hotcakes. The frenzy here in the U.S. has made it even more in demand in Europe, a place used to being first in getting the newest and hottest items
on the market. It has still not been decided who will be the carriers for the iPhone in Europe but it does appear that there will be a different carrier for each region of Europe, or at least that’s what the rumors are.
Originally Apple was in talks with Vodafone, those talks however, appear to have fallen through. Carolina Milanesi, a telecoms analyst at Gartner said, “Although it would make a great deal of sense for Apple to go with Vodafone, it doesn’t really fit with Vodafone’s emphasis on their own music content and portal.”
O2, ownded by Spanish Telecoms giant Telefonica, is reported to be in talks with Apple for a deal in the UK, however they have not yet cinched the deal. An O2 spokesman said, “The news is currently still just rumors, so O2 can make no further comment.”
Press reports sent out yesterday posted in the Rheinsische Post said that the iPhone would launch in Germany on November 1st, with T-Mobile as the distributor.
Currently Telecom’s Orange is the leader in negotiations for France.
Apple in all this has remained close lipped as always simply saying in true Apple style, “We do not comment on rumors or speculation.”
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