It wasn’t trumpeted in the press, but in France you can buy an unlocked iPhone. In Germany recently, the courts overturned an injunction that had made mobile operator T-Mobile sell unlocked handsets. But Orange, which has the exclusive license with Apple for France, has been quietly and legally selling the unlocked iPhones. According to the company, about 20% of its customers have opted for the unlocked version. With a two-year contract, Orange is selling the iPhone for about $570, and almost $1100 for an unlocked version with no contract. In the fist five days on offer, Orange shifted 30,000 iPhones, 48% of them going to new customers to the network. Elsewhere, notably in the US, hackers have unlocked iPhones.
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