Apple, T-Mobile ‘monopolizers’ says Vodaphone
p2pnet news | Mobiles:- Mobile network provider Vodafone has accused T-Mobile and Apple of creating new monopolies.
“Apple and T-Mobile have decided to change the market in an anticompetitive way”, Heise Online has Vodafone Deutschland CEO Friedrich Joussen saying.
A German court recently overturned an injunction forcing T-Mobile to sell unlocked phones.
Now, “Exclusively marketing the iPhone with T-Mobile sets a precedence which creates new monopolies at the expense of the customer”, says Joussen in an interview with Berliner Zeitung, states the story.
German law and mobile telephony licenses say a mobile phone must work in any network, Joussen told a Hamburg regional court, asking it to decide if iPhone access should be limited to only one operator.
“The iPhone was the first not to comply with this rule by being exclusive to T-Mobile,” he says, also declaring he has, “no intention to allow Apple to dictate how the market was to operate”.
O2 similarly rules the iPhone roost in Britain but in France, where customers aren’t compelled to go to just one supplier, to DRM King Steve Jobs’ disgust, 20% have bought unlocked iPhones.
Also See:
Heise Online – Vodafone: iPhone marketing model creates new monopolies, December 3, 2007
unlocked iPhones – 20% of French iPhones unlocked, December 5, 2007
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