T-Mobile also doing iPhone

Sol00

withabix wrote: »

They should be able to now they've been taken over by Orange.

This deal is through another company however, as the OP says. I've seen it posted on other sites.

Has Orange actually taken over T-Mobile officially yet? There's been nothing in the news since the speculation a month or so ago.

mluton

Vodafone are doing the iphone in January, I'm hoping the iphone price wars start as all the major mobile providers will be fighting for iphone customers.

We will see.............

Cerenia

Sol00 wrote: »

Has Orange actually taken over T-Mobile officially yet? There's been nothing in the news since the speculation a month or so ago.

The merger is still going through the monopoly comission council I believe its called, the people who decide if its a risk or not as far as i'm aware, rumours are going around that it won't be approved, or if it does, the company names will just stay seperate, rather like Game/Gamestation.

had-enough-now

The iphone is available through the retention team as the OP states. Its not branded, and they don't have a huge stock holding, but its there

had-enough-now

Sol00 wrote: »

Has Orange actually taken over T-Mobile officially yet? There's been nothing in the news since the speculation a month or so ago.

Orange aren't taking over T Mobile, its a merger

greyster

they buy them from abroad to get around the issue. They cost a lot and have limited stock so only highly valuable customers will be offered them.

As its for existing customers its not advertised but they have been doing this since mid summer at least. If you read old threads on this forum it shows.

And yes its a merger with orange not a buy out.... the fact orange has iphones now is ilrelevant as the networks have not merged yet. It will be mid next year at least.

greyster

Sol00 wrote: »

Has Orange actually taken over T-Mobile officially yet? There's been nothing in the news since the speculation a month or so ago.

They signed the agreement today... it goes to europe now to be approved... months wait now.

maxtweenie

greyster wrote: »

They signed the agreement today... it goes to europe now to be approved... months wait now.

Surely the Competition Commission in this country will have more of a say in it than Europe? After all, they won't want one phone provider with 37% of the network.

OneADay

maxtweenie wrote: »

Surely the Competition Commission in this country will have more of a say in it than Europe? After all, they won't want one phone provider with 37% of the network.

The OFT in London were muttering recently about looking into the merger - but I doubt they have much clout. They are more poodles to Europe who will rule on this eventually (a bit like the banks - Europe says too big, UK says ok lets sell and break them up - which reminds me Europe was pretty quiet when RBS were taking over ABN Amro for 71 billion in 2007.

gsmmad

read something on theregister.com about this, they are secretly giving it to top customers who threaten to leave people on the higher tariffs, there getting it from italy and selling it here so they are sim free. There only like 200-250 a week avalible. There is a thread about this on hud's.