iPhone Hip

Archive for January 16th, 2010

It’s reported, that the third British mobile operator Vodafone sell 50,000 iPhones on the first day. The group became the third UK operator to offer its customers the iPhone yesterday, four months after Orange announced it had broken O2′s exclusive hold over the phone in Britain. Tesco, which operates its own brand mobile business in partnership with O2, also sells the iPhone.

Vodafone (VOD), whose chief executive Vittorio Colao has long coveted the device, announced it had won the right to offer customers the iPhone just a day after Orange (FTE), but it was forced to wait until after the lucrative Christmas period to start selling.

There had been fears the group would see customers move to rival operators as a result. However, one company insider said: “When we didn’t get the iPhone initially, everyone predicted that customers would leave. These sales figures have proved that wrong.”