Vodafone to bring Apple iPhone to India

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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 2306 hrs Vodafone, on Tuesday, said that it had inked a deal with Apple to become the first telecom operator to officially launch the iPhone in the Indian market along with nine other countries. “Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, India, Italy, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network,” said the UK-based telecom giant in a release.

Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile phone company by revenue, had lost out on exclusive deals with Apple last year in both the UK and German markets, where the contracts were won by O2 and T-Mobile networks, respectively. With the announcement of the above mentioned deal with Vodafone, Apple has recorded a marked shift in strategy of selling its device through a single operator in every country as two telecoms companies, Vodafone and Telecom Italia will now have the licence to sell iPhone in Italy. According to the buzz, Australia may also see two to three players selling the device.