AppleInsider StaffCiting an industry source, the media outlet reports that the agreement — to be announced next week — will see the Apple handset sold through Deutsche Telekom's retail outlets in Germany at an initial price of 399 euros ($554).
As part of the deal, Deutsche Telekom has reportedly agreed to share voice and data revenues generated by the phones with Apple. The deal also means that Vodafone, once expected to be the frontrunner for an exclusive, pan-European agreement with Apple, has missed out.
Apple has scheduled a London news conference for next Tuesday but has declined to give details.
An Apple spokesman in Germany has said only that the company would announce which telecoms operators had won the sales deal by the end of September.
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Yeah, too T-Mobile in the U.S. didn't get a chance at the iPhone. The coverage isn't as good as AT&T and they don't have a real 3G plan in the works. They seemed more focused on using WiFi for a 3G experience.
I foresee a huge underground market for hacked iPhones being sold in the US for Germany...
Yeah, too T-Mobile in the U.S. didn't get a chance at the iPhone. The coverage isn't as good as AT&T and they don't have a real 3G plan in the works. They seemed more focused on using WiFi for a 3G experience.
so what are the chances that T-mobile customers in America will be able to get their hands on an i phone without hacking it like we can now?? Will t-mobile offer the I phone in the USA?
When is AAPL going to treat its european customers with some more respect. In the US the phone sells for 399$, over here 554$. That is a hefty 25% markup. I could live with the markup if we were to get the products AT THE SAME TIME.
The same applies to other products and categories : if you look at the iTMS in Belgium and compare it to (say) the US, you would think that us people living in Belgium still walk around with wooden clubs in order to put food on the table and that electricity is only sporadic (when the sun shines which it does not very often).
Shameful very shameful
When is AAPL going to treat its european customers with some more respect. In the US the phone sells for 399$, over here 554$. That is a hefty 25% markup. I could live with the markup if we were to get the products AT THE SAME TIME.
The same applies to other products and categories : if you look at the iTMS in Belgium and compare it to (say) the US, you would think that us people living in Belgium still walk around with wooden clubs in order to put food on the table and that electricity is only sporadic (when the sun shines which it does not very often).
Shameful very shameful
Just wait another 60 days after release and maybe it will come down 33%..... like it did in the USA.