Orange to offer ‘unlocked’ iPhones in France
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 17, 2007 at 5:56pm
Apple said Tuesday that it had signed France Telecom’s wireless unit, Orange, to be the company’s exclusive seller of the iPhone in France, agreeing for the first time to sell a version of the device that consumers can use on any network, reports the International Herald Tribune.
The move, which ended a month of speculation, is a concession to a French law that forbids bundling the sale of a mobile phone and a mobile operator, the article notes. Orange plans to sell both a version of the iPhone locked to its network in France for €399, or $560, and an unlocked version, which will cost more, an Orange spokeswoman, Béatrice Mandrine, said.
Mandrine told the International Herald Tribune that the cost of the unlocked version of the iPhone, which is being sold in the United States locked to the network of its exclusive sales agent, AT&T, as well as the length of the French service contract for the €399 version, will be announced in November.
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