Vodafone Exec Positive on iPhone
Posted by dennis on March 2nd, 2007 at 04:46pm Comments
In an interview given to Tagesspiegel daily by a German Vodafone chief exec, Friedrich Joussen, he positively evaluated iPhone’s multimedia capabilities.
In particular, he believes that the iPhone will have a positive effect on Vodafone’s business since it [Apple iPhone] can set new trends for downloadable mobile music market, which will bring greater revenues for mobile carriers.
Mr Joussen believes that Vodafone itself will cash in on its investment into UMTS enabled networks development, which might be a subtle hint for Apple.
Vodafone has long been rumored to be one of the major contenders for Apple iPhone’s distribution in Europe once the device arrives there in October 2007. Several Vodafone execs have already publicly expressed the company’s ambitions to become the exclusive Apple iPhone distributor in Europe.
Original interview report: golem.de via iphone-weblog.de.
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