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Vodafone to Begin Selling iPhone in UK and Ireland in Early 2010

Tuesday September 29, 2009 7:11 am PDT by Eric Slivka
Vodafone today announced that it will begin offering the iPhone 3G and 3GS for sale in the UK and Ireland in early 2010.

Beginning today, Vodafone UK and Vodafone Ireland customers can register their interest in iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS at www.vodafone.co.uk/iphone and www.vodafone.ie/iphone respectively. Pricing, tariffs and availability information will be announced locally in the future.

The news comes just one day after Orange announced that it had struck a deal with Apple to begin selling the iPhone in the UK. The launches will bring to a rapid close wireless carrier O2's exclusivity arrangement with Apple for iPhone distribution in the UK and Ireland, a status it has enjoyed since the launch of the original iPhone in those countries in November 2007 and March 2008 respectively.
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Jayomat
31 months ago
g0 g0 .. same in germany please .. :apple:
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colmaclean
31 months ago
Beginning to curse taking an 18-month contract with O2 in June...
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Mac Rules
31 months ago
Thank god for competition, I don't expect the price to vary too much between the three, but if the contracts become just a little more convincing then my money's on the table! Which of the 3 operators has the best coverage in the UK, 3G-wise? I' ve always been led to believe O2 and Vodafone were pretty good...

PS Bit sluggish on the uptake again guys! :rolleyes:
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Poppysdad1
31 months ago
This is good news. Hopefully O2 will have to work a little harder to keep existing iPhone subscribers with better tariffs and customer service. One point though, do Orange and Vodafone have big wifi networks around the country? O2's wifi partners give pretty widespread access. Even if it can be a little slow and localised.
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emotion
31 months ago
Need to figure out if Voda coverage is *actually* better than O2 for me now.

Glad I didn't repeat sign up after my 18 months on iPhone1 was up now.

ps. Vodafone are gonna have to do better with Safari support too:

http://maps.vodafone.co.uk/coverageviewer/web/default.aspx?configuration=vod
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Blueflame1138
31 months ago
I'd only ever been with Vodafone till I changed to O2 for the iPhone, and I would have stayed with them if they had got it in the first place.

That being said, I've been impressed with O2 on the whole. I guess I'll have to see what broadband deal Vodafone offers for their iPhone users.

Let the tariff wars begin!
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numbersyx
31 months ago
iPhone to clean up the smartphone market.... Can't wait for this in Canada...
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alm99
31 months ago
I am dreaming here, but with Vodafone getting the iPhone I hope this also points to Verizon Wireless getting the iPhone next year as well. Verizon Wireless being 45% owned by Vodaphone and their exclusive partner for overseas GSM compatibility with VZW current global phones. It’s no big deal to place a multi band CDMA/GSM chip in a phone anymore. Come on Apple and Verizon, place nice and stroke each others egos.
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koobcamuk
31 months ago

Need to figure out if Voda coverage is *actually* better than O2 for me now.


Ditto. Someone else told me that vodafone allow iPlayer over 3G but I haven't found out yet.
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JayX
31 months ago
Over the last 10 years I've had contracts with o2, T-Mobile, Orange and 3 on various handsets. O2 have been fine so far and I have no desire to leave them, but hopefully in April when my contract is due to be renegotiated they will cut me a good deal so I don't run off to someone else. Only 6 months to go...
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