T-Mobile picks up iPhone contract in Germany
Ars Technica points to an unconfirmed report in Germany’s Rheinische Post (RP) that Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile won out over rival Vodafone for the right to sell iPhone in Germany. Apparently the rest of Europe is still in play. This makes me wonder which network international travelers with T-Mobile iPhones will see when they power up their iPhones in the United States. T-Mobile has had a roaming agreement with Cingular. I don’t know if that’s still the case, because the area in which my T-Mobile phones once switched to Cingular — San Francisco — now registers T-Mobile as the carrier. I can’t imagine AT&T sitting still for any iPhone connecting to anything but its network in the States. But if each region really is subject to a bidding war, perhaps AT&T doesn’t have a say in who gets to sell iPhone overseas. I do know that Europeans will not sit still for having their phones go dead outside their service area. One portion of the Rheinische Post piece that I did not trouble to translate also decried the fact that Germans won’t get their choice of networks and tariffs (the more accurate term for rate plan). They’re no more… READ MORE