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O2 Offered iPhone Contract in UK

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the nice-work-if-you-can-get-it dept.

davidmcg writes "There has been speculation on who will provide the service for iPhone in the UK. Now, the answer has been provided. It seems that O2 has been offered the contract to provide telephony services in the UK for the iPhone. It seems that the iPhone should be available in the UK in time for Christmas. O2 have refused to confirm or deny these reports, so is it yet another unconfirmed iPhone rumor or is it fact? We can only wait to find out."

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  1. Lock-in by BlueParrot · · Score: 0, Troll

    So... a heavily DRMed phone which you can't run your own applications on, even thou it is fully capable, which also forces you to use a phone provider apple chooses for you? How is this NOT an anti-trust case ? Apple was slapped in Europe for the way iTunes locked people to the iPod already. Are they literarely asking for the same thing to happen with the iPhone? Customers should be free to switch provider if the one they are with turns out to suck, and if it isn't already it certainly ought to be law that youa re not allowed to lock phones to a particular company.

    PS: Taking bets on weather there will be some form of "region codes" implemented in this one.