Nov. 29 is court date for iPhone controversy in Germany
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 23, 2007 at 1:19pm
A Hamburg, Germany court will hear the case on T-Mobile Deutschland’s German marketing rights for the iPhone Nov. 29, reports CNN Money. Following a court order, T-Mobile has made changes to its iPhone offer, but has said it expects its marketing model to hold up in court, the article adds.
On Nov. 21, it was reported that T-Mobile, Apple’s exclusive partner in Germany, was forced to make the communications available on rival networks. T-Mobile said that it will make the phone accessible to other mobile operators.
The move followed a legal challenge by Vodafone which claimed that the exclusive deal—under which customers were forced to sign up to a 24-month T-Mobile contract—breached local competition laws. It’s unclear how Apple’s typical exclusivity model for the iPhone can proceed in Germany now the phone has been opened up for use on other networks.
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