A price war on the iPhone looks likely after Vodafone
confirmed today that it will sell the smart phone from early next
year.
The news comes the day after
Orange's announcement that it too will sell the iPhone, ending
O2's period of exclusivity.
Customers can
register
their interest in the Vodafone iPhone, which the company said
will be available in the early part of 2010. "Pricing, tariffs and
availability information will be announced locally in the future,"
it said.
O2 said in a statement yesterday, "We are proud that we have
been able to offer an exclusive iPhone deal to our 20 million
customers for the past two years. We always knew that iPhone
exclusivity was for a limited period of time, but our relationship
with Apple continues and will be an ongoing success. We have over
one million iPhone customers and they remain very important to
us.
"We aim to offer our customers the best devices on the market,
including becoming the home of smartphones, and we are really
pleased to now add another device in the Palm Pre."