It's just been announced that O2 has won the contract to sell Apples iPhone in the UK. The phones will be sold in the stores from 9th November (in O2, Carphone Warehouse and Apple retailers) and will cost £269 plus an 18 month contract from £35 to £55 per month.
In terms of accessing the web, all users will be able to use the 7500 wi-fi hotspots however the iPhone isn't able to use high-speed 3G networks. As an alternative, it uses 'Edge', which works on the existing O2 network however is noticeably slower than 3G.
However, I doubt that this will rock sales of the iPhone as even with the teething troubles experienced by early adopters in the US, revenues were still huge. But if users are thinking about using their phones to surf the web, they'll be getting a slow service.
Should this stop anyone from wanting one though? The answer has to be....no :-)
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