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In Germany, the iPhone is free -- for $1,465
T-Mobile will sell you an iPhone to use on a cell carrier of your choice -- that's because there are, you know, consumer protection regulations in Germany.
By Farhad Manjoo [2007-11-21]

  • I don't know about Germany,

    but here in Finland my bills for my Treo (with the cheapest GPRS/EDGE unlimited data plan) are in the vicinity of the price difference quoted ($ 843 = ~ € 572 /24 months => ~ € 23.80), usually less (not a heavy talker).

    The irony is that Finland, homeland of Nokia, used to forbid sale of locked phones totally. Now it is allowed, and people are amazingly tardy about switching over from GSM to 3G. Whereas back in the day the switch from NMT to GSM was amazingly fast.

    -- Tona Aspsusa
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    Wednesday, November 21, 2007 01:01 PM
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