The iPhone 3G
Well yes, according to Mobile Entertainment. They are claiming to have seen docs that state October 9th is ‘end of days’, so to speak.
Apparently O2 has the rights to sell iPhones for 5 years, but only has exclusivity for 2 years. What this would probably mean is that T-Mobile and Orange (who have been strongly linked with the iPhone) get the iPhone 3G, but O2 (I’d guess) will get to keep exclusivity on the iPhone 3GS – and I’d bet they won’t surrender the exclusivity on further handsets either!
Interestingly, although the iPhone is sold in around 80 countries, it’s only exclusive in the US, UK, and Germany – so changes in the UK wouldn’t be a massive shock.
I personally can’t wait to see the kind of tariffs that T-Mobile and Orange will come with, if they do get the rights to sell the iPhone 3G – it could suddenly make things VERY interesting!
[Via: Mobile-Ent.biz]