Apple will end its two year exclusive deal with O2 this September, allowing other networks like Orange and T-Mobile to distribute iPhone 3G handsets. But the Cupertino-based company will continue to give O2 exclusivity for iPhone 3GS.
The addition of a new network selling the iPhone will break O2’s UK exclusivity on the coveted handset, and will offer a challenge to O2’s prices and tariffs.
Sources said O2 has been furious with the news and is concerned potential rivals will undercut its prices on the older model.
[via Mobile Today]
Its about time the only reason I’ve not got an iphone is I refuse to pay an extortionate conntract with a network that doesn’t cover my house! I’m glad they’ll be challenged on their tariffs and I can finally get an iphone
Now that is the best news i have heard all day today. Its about time 02 lost the exclusivity on the iphone as they just wanna rip people of with there ridiculous prices and tarrifs and i hope the other UK networks undercut 02 and offer better deals for us important customers & also i hope people cancel with 02 and go with other networks once the iphone is available and i’ll finally get one too.
I am delighted to hear this. I hope O2 get completely undercut. At@t in the states are about to loose theirs apparently because the network is crap most of the time. In Ireland O2 is such a rip off.
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