Freedom has a price in Germany

November 23rd, 2007

I have been keeping track of the legal news coming out of Germany concerning the iPhone and its exlusive contract with T-Mobile. Well it looks like the courts in Germany agree that it is wrong to force someone to buy a contract with the iPhone and has ordered T-Mobile to sell the iPhone both without a contract and an unlocked sim.

Good news right? Wrong, in response t-Mobile has jacked the price of the unlocked iPhone up a few hundred dollars, so while you can indeed get an unlocked iPhone it will cost you a pretty penny if you don’t want the T-Mobile service plan.

However I am optimistic this will eventually lead to a more open iPhone.

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