O2: up to 200,000 iPhones will be sold in Britain over holiday season
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 5, 2007 at 3:35pm
Up to 200,000 iPhones will be sold in Britain over Christmas and the New Year, according to O2, the largest mobile operator in the UK. The communications device goes on sale in the UK on Friday, Nov. 9. O2 will be the exclusive network for the handset and predicts that the iPhone will be its fastest selling handset yet.
Matthew Key, chief executive of O 2 ’s UK business, told the Financial Times he expected “a couple of hundred thousand” iPhones to be sold in the first two months by Apple, O2 and Carphone Warehouse, the mobile phone retailer. He added that O2 had ordered “hundreds of thousands” of iPhones from Apple for stores and online outlets run by O2 and Carphone.
Some analysts said the 200,000 sales projection was conservative. Carolina Milanesi, analyst at Gartner, a consultancy, told the Times that between 350,000 and 400,000 iPhones could be sold in the first two months.
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