iPhone in Europe: Same Business Model?

According to the Financial Times website FT.com, Apple successfully pushed European carrier to follow the Apple's iPhone business plan. The selected European mobile phone carriers (Orange for France, T-Mobile for Germany and O2 for UK) will share parts of their revenues with the Cupertino.
The Apple-European carriers’ partnership is supposed to be announced at the IFA trade fair in Berlin at the end of August; with rumored availability for the end of September.
The iPhone business plan gives Apple as a manufacturer of handsets for the first time a direct share of the revenues a mobile phone carrier makes from calls, data transfers, and subscriptions. Apple's victory might push other mobile manufacturer such as Nokia and Sony-Ericsson to look into such deal with worldwide carriers. Apple had the strong historical success of the iPod as a proof of its know-how, while other manufacturers can not really come-up with similar examples.