Apple to limit iPhone launch in Europe this year

Financial Times newspaper has stated in a report that Apple is likely to limit the availability of their mobile phone product iPhone in the European nations this year.

The report claimed that Apple would make available the iPhone only in Britain, France and Germany market this year.

The availability would be expanded in the next year. The report further claimed that O2 would become the first European mobile phone operator to reach a deal with Apple.

Apple has just launched the iPhone in the US market in collaboration with AT&T. Vodafone and T-Mobile are two companies which have been linked with possible deals with Apple to launch the iPhone in the European market.

The report further said that the iPhone in Europe would operate on slower 2.5 generation mobile networks.