German Court Rules iPhone Locking Legal

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 4, 2007 @05:02PM from the help-pay-for-the-patent-settlement dept.

l-ascorbic writes "A German court has overturned Vodafone's temporary injunction against T-Mobile. Two weeks ago, the British mobile network won an injunction forcing T-Mobile to sell iPhones that were not locked to its network. Vodafone argued that locking is an anti-competitive practice, and sought to force the German network to permanently allow the use of the phones on other networks. After the injunction was granted, T-Mobile offered the unlocked phones for €999 ($1473), and these will now be withdrawn from sale."

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Re:Ich bin ein unlocker by Real_Reddox · 2007-12-04 20:40 · Score: 3, Informative

Funded, not controlled. we have the same system in Norway, and it really works. NRK (our equivalent of BBC) is no less critical towards the gov't than the independent channels. However, it has no commercial breaks :D

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