T-Mobile Stops Selling Unlocked iPhone in Germany
A German court has decided to grant T-Mobile exclusive rights to sell the iPhone in Germany, overturning a temporary injunction granted against the operator two weeks ago.
Vodafone won a temporary injunction against T-Mobile, forcing it to start selling unlocked iPhones. T-Mobile did so, but at a price of $1,460. The price of an iPhone on a 24-month contract at T-Mobile Germany is $582. Now that the injunction has been overturned by the Regional Court of Hamburg, T-Mobile has stopped selling unlocked iPhones. But According to T-Mobile, they have already sold a quite a bit of unlocked iPhones at this higher price.
Unlocked iPhones can still be bought in France, as competition laws in France have forced Orange, the winner of the iPhone exclusivity rights for France, to open up the handset to users of other networks.
This is good news for Apple and T-Mobile, both has profits based on exclusivity. You can read more at the source.
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