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T-Mobile Wins In Court
18 Dec 2007
A German court overturned a temporary order it granted two weeks ago, which forced T-Mobile to sell iPhones that were not tied to a single network. Vodafone objected to the exclusivity agreement and said customers should be able to choose between networks. Apple has similar licensing agreements with O2 in the UK and AT&T in the US.
There has been much speculation about the details of the deals between Apple and the mobile providers, who are reported to be paying the US computer firm anything from 10% to 30% of their iPhone revenues. Apple in turn has warned that hacking into the phone's software could render the phones "permanently inoperable" when it releases software updates. Apple still faces two lawsuits in the US from people alleging that preventing users unlocking their iPhones is an unreasonable restriction of consumer choice.
