Iphone Uk Orange And T Mobile Merge In Apple Power Play
T-Mobile and Orange hope their merger to create Britain’s largest mobile phone network will enable them to win the rights to the handset. The combination beats Apple’s current iPhone partner, O2, into becoming the UK’s second network. We also understand the O2 iPhone tie-up is under review, with some summer reports claiming the exclusive arrangement’s set to fall apart in early October. Tom Alexander, Orange’s UK chief executive, told The Telegraph: “We [Orange] are already the network of choice for multimedia devices, we’ve already got the biggest 3G network (which is used to deliver mobile phone broadband), now with T-Mobile we’ve got an even stronger 3G network....