100,000 iPhones expected to sell in France by 2008
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 27, 2007 at 1:09pm
France Telecom’s Orange expects to sell nearly 100,000 iPhones by the end of 2007, reports CNET. “The target is a little under 100,000 sold by the end of the year,” CEO Didier Lombard told Europe 1 radio.
He added that Orange will offer the unlocked iPhone in France at a price “significantly lower” than the $1,485 (999 euros) proposed by Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile in Germany. Full details of sale prices for the music-playing, Net-browsing phone will be published on Wednesday morning, but Lombard gave some indications, notes CNET.
In France, the starting price of the iPhone with a contract will be $588 (399 euros), he said. Lombard said that a 24-month contract will start at $72 a month and include two hours of communications and 50 text messages. The price would be $6.50 more per month for a 12-month contract, the minimum term, he added.
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