Vodaphone will become the third mobile phone operator to start selling Apple’s iPhone in the UK.
However, the UK’s second largest operator won't begin selling the 3G and 3GS versions of the iPhone until “early 2010”, meaning that it will miss out on the busy Christmas selling period, reports the Financial Times.
The news comes just one day after Orange announced that it too had agreed a deal with Apple to sell the iPhone in the UK, ending the two year exclusivity deal previously held by O2.
Yesterday Apple said that there are now over 50 million iPhone and iPod touch owners worldwide, and that more than two billion applications for the platforms have been downloaded from the App Store in a little over a year. Earlier this month the company claimed that the App Store houses over 21,178 “game and entertainment titles”.