T-Mobile Says It Will Not Comment on IPhone ContractDeutsche Telekom AG’s T-Mobile unit said it won’t comment on conflicting reports about a possible contract to distribute Apple Inc.’s iPhone in Germany.
T-Mobile beat Vodafone Group Plc to win an exclusive contract and will sell the iPhone for about 450 euros ($613) from Nov. 1. Negotiations are still going on and no winner has been decided.
“There are so many different rumors going around,'’ T- Mobile’s Bonn-based spokeswoman Marion Kessing said via telephone today. “We won’t comment.'’
T-Mobile, based in Bonn, has 33 million customers and is Germany’s largest wireless operator by clients.
The iPhone, which combines features of the iPod music player with those of a phone handset, went on sale in the U.S. on June 29 and buyers emptied more than half of Apple’s outlets in less than a week. Cupertino, California-based Apple is selling two models, priced at $499 and $599.
Shares of Deutsche Telekom rose 11 cents, or 0.8 percent, to 13.78 euros as of 9:38 a.m. in Frankfurt, after gaining as much as 1.5 percent.
