France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom have announced plans to combine their UK Orange and T-Mobile operations, part of a dash to convince Apple to grant the operators rights to distribute the iPhone.
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 i
