With an official announcement yet awaited rumors of O2 loosing an exclusive hold on iPhones by Apple are getting hot.
Mobile entertainment has it that according to a leaked ‘documentation’, the deal of O2 will end this October. The original deal of O2 was signed in 2007 and it is supposed that it grant the store, rights to sell iPhone till 2012.
But what remains unknown is how long does the exclusive selling rights part lasts. It means that while O2 will be allowed to sell iPhone for 5 years but not that it will be the only seller of iPhone for the same period.
It is also rumored that O2 might have to forgo its rights to iPhone 3G but it will have exclusive selling rights to iPhone 3GS.
O2 has been stating repeatedly that it has ongoing deal with Apple and a “multi-year exclusive on iPhone.”
The networks most likely to get associated with the handset are Orange and T-Mobile. This happens as Apple feels the pressure of opening up its iPhone to other networks also.
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