How about a little mystery to go with our latest carrier announcement. Earlier today, several sites noted that Spanish provider Movistar, a subsidiary of Telefonica, had changed its front page to announce that they’d signed a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Spain sometime this year.
Then, several hours later, that same page, including a broken link to a press release about the deal, vanished and was replaced by a standard homepage, with no mention of the iPhone. Some say as many as 25,000 people registered for further information before the page disappeared.
Spain is the largest remaining European country to not yet have an official iPhone deal, though Orange CFO Gervais Pellissier last month said that company was negotiating to bring the handset to the country. Perhaps Movistar’s deal was not as finalized as they had first thought, or perhaps Spain will be another country to reap the benefits of a non-exclusive deal.
