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05/16/2008, 7:25am, EDT
Friday, May 16th
Orange brings iPhone to Africa, mid-East, more
Orange today announced plans to bring the iPhone to many more areas than its original French launch. The telecoms firm says it will launch the iPhone in areas that haven't yet been covered by previous carrier deals, including Belgium, Poland, Romania and Slovakia in Europe. The company will also bring the iPhone to the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, Jordan in the Middle East, and the company's "Africa markets," according to the announcement.
The launch also includes overlapping coverage in nations that already have or will have carriers, including Austria, Egypt, Portugal, and Switzerland. Orange doesn't say when it expects any of the revealed countries to get the iPhone other than "later this year."
The Orange announcement is one of the largest single carrier announcements for the iPhone since the Vodafone unveiling earlier in the month and pushes the number of countries that will officially support the iPhone to beyond 40.
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Woohoo!
Another day, another phone company announcing plans that some day they plan on bringing service to another country!
Of course, anyone notice Apple's complete lack of confirmation on any of these stories?
as always...
...testudo will end up with complete egg on his face.
It's obvious that Apple plans a rather massive announcement of global availability, and these carrriers are all jumping aboard in time for the big WWDC announcement.
It looks like the June announcement will be huge.