iPhone is now available from all five UK mobile operators (just don’t tell Apple).
Apple made news last month (and angered O2) by announcing that Orange and Vodafone would also carry the iPhone in the UK come November and Q1 2010, respectively. This made many, many people happy who always wanted the iPhone but didn’t want to leave their carrier. Now the Big Three operators in the UK all had the iPhone. But, why stop there?
Apple made news last month (and angered O2) by announcing that Orange and Vodafone would also carry the iPhone in the UK come November and Q1 2010, respectively. This made many, many people happy who always wanted the iPhone but didn’t want to leave their carrier. Now the Big Three operators in the UK all had the iPhone. But, why stop there?
UK mobile carriers 3 and T-Mobile have now begun to ‘unofficially offer’ the iPhone to their customers who threaten to defect. They’re doing this by buying contact-free iPhones from continental Europe and offering them to ‘high-valued’ customers as incentives to stay. T-Mobile has been doing this for months, but 3 is the latest to jump on the bandwagon. There has been no comment from Apple, but I don’t see how this could be a bad thing for them (O2, yes. Apple, no).
In other iPhone UK news, Carphone Warehouse has lost its exclusive independent stockiest status for the iPhone. Phones4U, another high-street mobile handset retailer, has entered an agreement with O2 to sell O2-contract iPhones at its 450 UK stores.