Tuesday, December 22, 2009

iPhone to launch with Vodafone UK in January


And if you think that three official carriers for the iPhone in UK weren't quite enough to penetrate the consumers, here comes another one - Vodafone. As it was revealed by official sources earlier this morning, Vodafone would begin selling the 'Outstanding phone' starting from January 14th.


This makes Vodafone the fourth official carrier in the UK to have the iPhone. The race started in back in 2007 when the iPhone was launched in the UK in exclusive partnership with O2 and it was only last month that Orange started selling the iPhone, ending O2's two-year long exclusive contract. And apart from the two, the iPhone is also being sold in contract with Tesco.
On the tariff side, Vodafone does not seem to have anything exciting to offer though. Much equivalent to the prices offered by other carriers, Vodafone is offering a free iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS for £35 and £45 a month respectively on a two-year contract and a £5 for iPhone tethering for up to 500MB of data.
But that's not all. The actual benefit for the deal with Vodafone starts with unlimited texts for all but the cheapest 18-month deal, and existing customers will get free Vodafone to Vodafone calls for the life of their contract if they register for pre-order.

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