According to the newspaper Times, O2 should lose its exclusive partnership for the iPhone in UK on November 10th. Orange, which recently merged its UK mobile network with T-Mobile, will then offer the iPhone too on the same date.
Overall, Apple is working on ending its exclusive partnership as already announced during the investigation conducted in France by the anti-monopoly Council. If such exclusive partnership could be useful when launching a new product and new associated services (unlimited internet and Visual Voice Mail), the environment has evolved and such strategy is not necessary anymore. In other words, all carriers are willing to team up with Apple to get the iPhone in their catalog.
This information comes as another sign that the US partnership between Apple and AT&T could also be ending soon. Rumors indicate that AT&T is preparing to accommodate with this lose of exclusive deal while Verizon might be already testing the future model of iPhone 4g (4G not necessarily indicating the network protocol used, but rather the 4th generation of iPhone).
