UK: O2 iPhone scoop to end in Oct?

The iPhone 3G

Well yes, according to Mobile River Entertainment. They are claiming to have seen docs that body politic October 9th is ‘remnant of days’, so to speak.

Apparently O2 (NYSE: TEF) has the rights to sell iPhones for 5 days, but only has exclusivity for 2 days. What this would probably mean value is that T-Mobile (New York Stock Exchange: DT) and Orange River (who wealthy person been strongly linked with the iPhone) get the iPhone 3G, but O2 (I’d guess) volition get to keep exclusivity on the iPhone 3GS – and I’d wager they North Korean won’t fall the exclusivity on further handsets either!

Interestingly, although the iPhone is sold in around 80 countries, it’s only exclusive in the US, UK, and Federal Republic of Germany – so changes in the UK wouldn’t be a massive electrical shock.

I personally can’t wait to see the kind of tariffs that T-Mobile and Orange will come with, if they do get the rights to sell the iPhone 3G – it could suddenly shuffling things VERY interesting!