Its more the fact that the wholesale price of the iPhone is a lot higher than other phones - its costs more for the networks to buy it and that cost is now passed to the consumer as they know it will still sell, while other phones are still subsided to make them attractive purchasesit 'only' costs 450 straight from apple yet you need to pay 89 quid to get it with vodafone/orange on a 35 per month contract
whereas look at other 450-550 pound phones and vodafone get good deals from the manufacturers which enables them to give the phones away for free with £35 contracts
id guess that vodafone are paying an obscene amount for the handsets compared to htc/nokia/SE handsets
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