T-Mobile is allowed to lock up the iPhone

A court in Hamburg (Germany) canceled a verdict yesterday that said two weeks ago officially allowed T-Mobile to "tie up" the iPhone with its mobile service network. .

The above decision means that if you want to buy iPhone users, the German market will be required to sign a contract to use T-Mobile's service for at least two consecutive years. In return, the iPhone price will drop to about 585 USD.

Exactly 10 days after T-Mobile announced plans to launch iPhone to Germany. On November 19, Vodafone filed a lawsuit against T-Mobile in violation of the German consumer protection laws, which tied up consumers without allowing them the freedom to choose mobile network service providers when using Iphone.

Analysts say Vodafone's move is because if the contract between T-Mobile and Apple is approved, it will lose many customers using the service. Those are the people who want to use the iPhone.

At that time the court ruled in favor of Vodafone to demand that T-Mobile sell the unlocked iPhone version. T-Mobile agreed but raised the price of unlocked iPhone version to 999 USD and complained to the court.

Yesterday's ruling changed the whole face. T-Mobile will only sell the locked iPhone version to its service network. However, T-Mobile also affirmed that after the expiration of the service contract, it will unlock iPhone for customers completely free of charge.

Thus, customers who want to get the unlocked iPhone version still have to look to France. Mobile service provider France Télécom will sell the unlocked iPhone version for about $ 957 plus a device unlocking fee of about $ 147.

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