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In a short press release today, Orange announced it would bring the iPhone to "customers in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and Orange's African markets later this year." The company offered no other details.
For some of these countries, it means that many carriers will be providing service for iPhone.
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Sam said 10:48AM on 5-16-2008
Orange Belgium (Mobistar) will offer the iPhone services but will sell unlocked iPhones. Simlocking and discounts on cellphones are forbidden in Belgium. Maybe iPhone 2.0 will be unlocked from the start?
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tbk said 12:03PM on 5-16-2008
Hum
this one operator strategy is exactly what will not work in the emerging markets. People are ready to pay for the handset but they want choice.
Cannot understand Apple : Orange did NOT suceed selling properly this handset in France, just because many french subscriber were not ready to move to Orange.
wait and see.
Vortex said 12:25PM on 5-16-2008
Any rumors or gessing about Russian market support?
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Jacques Lema said 1:02PM on 5-16-2008
So that means Switzerland will have it on both Swisscom and Orange? Fine!
(Of course I happen to be using the third operator, Sunrise.. sigh).
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Marian said 2:00PM on 5-16-2008
I glad I've just managed to sell my jailbroken iPhone from the US. I'm hopefully gonna get an official, new 3G iPhone here in Slovakia before the end of 2008 without having to worry about unlocking the phone after each update.
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SushiPillow said 2:01PM on 5-16-2008
Orange has a very strong presence in Israel, why aren't they bringing the iPhone here as well?
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samab said 3:34PM on 5-16-2008
There are 2 Belgium cases that have appealed up to the European Court of Justice on whether Belgium's anti-bundling law is against EU's consumer protection laws (the cases will be heard on June 17, 2008).
[url]http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/16/technology/iphone.php[/url]
Meanwhile, Belgium is thinking about repealing the anti-bundling law.
[url]http://www.vanbaelbellis.com/files/BE%200108-100213A.pdf[/url]
Looks like Orange is betting that Beglium is going to kill their existing laws.
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apernett said 11:58AM on 5-17-2008
Hope Telefonica makes an announcement for their iPhone distribution soon...
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