Vodafone to declare iPhone deal on Thursday?

...I'm guessing Rogers is the fly in the ointment & holding out for a 'better' deal, knowing their aggressive history...

How about giving us an unlocked GSM option please & let the customers decide...?

Yes, it seems to me with the early success comes some confidence in making better deals in the rest of the world with respect to flexibility and diversity of services.

Just like with pharmaceuticals, the US consumer may eventually subsidize Canadian and European consumers. The AT&T deal doesn't have to go beyond our shores and as usual we let American corporate monopolies teach foreign (non-US) governments and consumers what mistakes to avoid.

There isn't anything wrong with that. In a way America "pioneers" new products and tech so that lessons can be learned. Unfortunately corporations have so little room to experiment fiscally, unless you are friends of the administration (think Enron), that they require vast legal contractual self-imposed regulations to keep investors secure.

Anyway I hope Canada, Europe and the rest push for more openness and give Apple and the American consumer a better model for future iPhone contracts.

Try buying software in Europe, and then tell us how the US is subsidising the price for us.

While using Safari for the Application interface, any one can use an App designed for the iPhone. But this is not without a few draw backs as well, all of the extra features of the phone cannot be utilized. An example would be a game not being able to use the included vibrate function for force feedback.

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exactly. Have you seen the price of Adobe CS3 in the UK compared to US?

Software is not what the OP of the subsidy comment was talking about. And while it is very true about Pharmaceuticals, things like Macs and Phones and SW are very unlikely to fall under the same sort of "subsidy" as that more or less requires a government intervention to set prices on the European side.