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26-09-2007, 02:01 PM
France Telecom's Orange will sell Apple's iPhone handsets in France from the end of November, chief executive Didier Lombard said during an industry event in Hanoi on Thursday.
A company spokeswoman confirmed Lombard had unveiled the long-expected deal for France, which follows similar deals earlier this week to bring iPhones to Germany via Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile and to the UK through Spanish-owned O2.
France Telecom said it was sure the unsubsidised phones, which combine Apple's popular iPod music player, a video player and a web browser, would spur sales in France.
No further details were immediately available.
Innovative US consumer electronics company Apple broke into the mobile-phone industry by unveiling its iPhone in January, and has flouted European telecommunication conventions with its first European distribution deal. Most European mobile-phone customers, who sign up for 18-month to two-year contracts with wireless-services operators, are not used to paying extra for the latest handsets.
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A company spokeswoman confirmed Lombard had unveiled the long-expected deal for France, which follows similar deals earlier this week to bring iPhones to Germany via Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile and to the UK through Spanish-owned O2.
France Telecom said it was sure the unsubsidised phones, which combine Apple's popular iPod music player, a video player and a web browser, would spur sales in France.
No further details were immediately available.
Innovative US consumer electronics company Apple broke into the mobile-phone industry by unveiling its iPhone in January, and has flouted European telecommunication conventions with its first European distribution deal. Most European mobile-phone customers, who sign up for 18-month to two-year contracts with wireless-services operators, are not used to paying extra for the latest handsets.
cont.
ref,
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39289549,00.htm