iPhone goes global via Vodafone, no longer carrier exclusive
Today Vodafone announced that it would bring the iPhone to 10 countries in the latter half of 2008. The countries are:
- Australia
- Czech Republic
- Egypt
- Greece
- Italy
- India
- Portugal
- New Zealand
- South Africa
- Turkey
While this is huge news in itself, if you dig a little deeper there is some more information. TIM in Italy has already been announced as a iPhone carrier - and iPhone firmware contains TIM information. Optus and Telstra in Australia are also rumored to recieve the 3G iPhone. This means that Apple is no longer going with carrier exclusive arrangements.
Will Apple let Tmobile in the US have the device? How about Vodafone in the UK? It looks like the 3G iPhone may just be an open device available to move around as it pleases...the way it should have been delivered in the 1st place, IMHO.
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