T-Mobile Germany Offers IPhone Sans Contract For $1,478
T-Mobile has announced it will now start selling iPhones without a contract, for 999 euros (US$1,478), as opposed to 399 euros with a two-year contract. Any customer can now have the SIM lock on their phone removed, reports the International Herald Tribune. This is in response to an injunction obtained by Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) earlier this week, and will last until a hearing at a Hamburg court which is expected in two weeks, reports Dow Jones. T-Mobile would have faced penalties, which may have included a 250,000 euro fine, if it hadn’t complied with the injunction.
In its press release, T-Mobile said that it was good to link the iPhone to its network because it had the widest EDGE network, as well as a bunch of T-Mobile Hotspots. It also reserved the right to sue the pants off Vodafone if the launch of the iPhone in Germany is hampered.
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Comments (3)
Nov 21, 2007 3:13 PM
I can’t wait to buy an iPhone for Christmas.. In my opinion it’s the best phone ever made :D
But iPhone isn’t just wonderful things… Greenpeace made some scientific tests and found out that iPhone contains hazardous chemicals… Here is the video: weshow.com/us/p/22543/greenpeace_unveals_iphones_hazardous_chemicals
Unbelievable right? Steve should do something asap!
Nov 22, 2007 10:49 AM
I would buy the phone without contract - with the contact you have to pay more then 1600 for it.
Nov 22, 2007 7:13 PM
Apple Computer and the i Phone are two great product lines. But in terms of what it means to the digital music industry—well I think it means more to the bottom line investor on wall street. Times have certainly change since 2003. Back then all these new gadgets were supposed to be all time blockbusters. Well, nothing really got busted open accept one big copyright infringement frenzy where devices like the i pod became the world premier warehouse for stolen music carried over from the file sharing days. It’s really a sad day inside the music business when a
distributor can sell 200,000 artist to a 1.8 trillion dollar industry for $21 million dollars and divvy up 7 billion to the pro rata quo for a straight nine % on whatever . . .