iPhone: It's Official... Vodafone Wins The Battle!

As predicted by tugga tech, Vodafone is the winner. Later this year Portugal will have the most awaited mobile phone ever selling (legally) at Vodafone stores: The iPhone!
That wasn't very hard to guess as Vodafone is the biggest mobile operator in the world. So I guess they have, at least, a bit of power to negotiate with Apple. Far behind are TMN and Optimus (they will have to manage with some unlocked iPhones). More legal fun after the jump.

Vodafone won the contract to sell the iPhone in ten countries: Portugal, Australia, India, Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, New Zealand, South Africa, Turkey and Italy.
Let's remember our readers that Vodafone lost the battle for the iPhone in their home country, the UK, where O2 and Carphone Warehouse Group won the commercial contract with Apple.

As the iPhone is entering the EU we, at tugga tech, believe that the american way locked phone model is obsolete and Apple will have to rethink this commercial plan. At Germany you can already buy an iPhone for as low as 99€ ($153 cry americans... cry!).

One thing is for sure. From the almost 4 million sold iPhones only 2.7 million have been legally activated.

Tuff market hey Steve? Will it be 3G?