So, with all of this hubbub over Apple’s non-exclusive carrier deals in many of the countries they’re moving into, what does this mean for the countries where Apple’s already got deals in place?
According to the CEO of T-Mobile, Hamid Akhavan, it doesn’t affect the happy marriage between Apple and its German provider:
“We have a very good relationship with Apple…at least in Germany it is exclusive, and we expect it to remain as such,” Akhavan told the Reuters Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit in Paris.
And though Apple’s US partner, AT&T, has not been shy about touting a future 3G iPhone, T-Mobile is taking a more circumspect route—which Steve Jobs would no doubt approve of:
“If and when there is a 3G iPhone we expect to have it exclusively in Germany as well,” [said Akhavan.]
T-Mobile is, of course, also currently selling the iPhone in Austria, but as we noted late last week, France Telecom announced that they’ve also struck an arrangement to sell the iPhone in Austria. If Apple’s Austrian extramarital fling is causing strife in Germany, there’s certainly no indication of it.
