The British mobile phone operator Vodafone has made a distributor agreement with Apple that gives it the right to sell iPhone smartphones in 10 countries, with a total of 1.4 mlrd people, announced on 6th May Bloomberg.
Accordingly to the signed contract, Vodafone can sell the goods in Australia, India, South Africa, Italy, Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Portugal, New Zealand and Turkey. Nowadays, it is possible to buy legally a mobile phone in USA, UK, France, Germany, Austria and Ireland.
Some time ago Vodafone was struggling to obtain this contract for UK too, but it was assigned to O2.
In Germany, Vodafone obtained a temporarily legal decision to control the iPhone sales through T-mobile without a contract. In the beginning of December 2007, the Legal Court has maintained its decision favorable to T-mobile, as an exclusive distributor.
