TeliaSonera nabs iPhone rights for Nordic and Baltic markets
By Thomas Ricker 
posted May 27th 2008 3:25AM
posted May 27th 2008 3:25AM
Ok ok, we hear you tipsters, iPhone now official for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia "later this year" thanks to a deal between Apple and TeliaSonera. At this point, only The Netherlands seems to be out of the loop in Europe.[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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None said about exclusivity, though. So they might not own this entirely on their own.
You are so cute when you are hopeful... :)
The way Apple negotiates with their partners (be it suppliers, content providers, whomever) it would be very unlikely that they would even bring the iPhone to such a small market without major concessions from their partner. Concessions that these, in turn, would not give unless they got exclusivity.
Same as elsewhere (maybe except Italy?).
What does strike me is that they clearly did not pick the "best" partner in all of these countries. For one, it seems to me that Telenor has much larger/wider coverage in Norway than does Telia.
Oh, and regarding the statement that the Netherlands seems to be the only place in Europe without an iPhone in the horizon: What about Denmark? Iceland? Belgium? Spain? Lichtenstein, Andorra, Morocco, Luxembourg? The Vatican? San Marino? Canary Islands? Cyprus? Greece? (And that's not even counting the traditionally "Eastern" Europe...)
And since you can only sell 3G phones locked here in Finland (not 2G) it's pretty safe to say 3G iPhones are on their way :D