“Apple is understood to be demanding that its European mobile phone partners hand over a significant proportion of revenues generated by the iPhone and restrict the content that users can access,” Richard Wray reports for The Guardian.
“The portion of network revenues demanded by Apple is believed to have been behind Vodafone’s decision not to sign up as the exclusive partner for the iPhone in the UK. That contract is understood to have been won by O2 although the mobile phone operator stressed that no deal has yet been signed,” Wray reports.
“The iPhone is expected to launch in November in the UK through O2, in France with Orange and in Germany with T-Mobile,” Wray reports.
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