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WSJ.com MarketWatch.com Barrons.com All Things Digital More Bigcharts.com Virtual Stock Exchange.com WSJ Espanol WSJ Chinese WSJ Europe SEARCH close Welcome please sign in . My Portfolio Community VSE Alerts Front Page News Commentary Markets Mutual Funds ETFs Personal Finance Technology Tools Research My MarketWatch Community Video Markets Global Markets Emerging Markets Earnings Watch latest news Apple in first to use two networks to sell iPhone By Steve Goldstein MarketWatch Last update a.m. EDT May Print E mail RSS Disable Live Quotes LONDON MarketWatch Apple Inc. on Tuesday announced a deal with Vodafone Group to distribute the iPhone in ten countries and for the first time will sell the device with two operators in a single market. According to a brief statement issued by Vodafone VOD VOD News chart profile more Last Delayed quote data Add to portfolio Analyst Create alert Insider Discuss Financials Sponsored by UK VOD news chart profile the phones will be sold in Aust! ralia the Czech Republic Egypt Greece Italy India Portugal New Zealand South Africa and Turkey later this year. The Vodafone deal will extend Apple s reach significantly as the iPhone is currently sold in only a handful of markets including the U.S. the U.K. Germany France and Spain. Vodafone which has missed out on iPhone distribution deals in Germany and the U.K. didn t give an indication on how it was going to promote the iPhone. But in an unusual shift Telecom Italia TI TI News chart profile more Last Delayed quote data Add to portfolio Analyst Create alert Insider Discuss Financials Sponsored by also said it s going to sell Apple s AAPL AAPL News chart profile more Last Delayed quote data Add to portfolio Analyst Create alert Insider Discuss Financials Sponsored by iPhone in Italy. Like Vodafone Telecom Italia didn t provide many details. Italy is one of the most attractive mobile phone markets in the world though overwhelmingly Italians choose pre paid plans as oppose! d to contracts at Vodafone for instance of its Italian customers don t have contracts. In the U.K. and Germany prices have been cut on the iPhones as Apple struggles to win over European customers who are reluctant to spend for the touch screen device when they can get aggressively subsidized phones from rivals. Steve Goldstein is MarketWatch s London bureau chief. 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