TeliaSonera to roll out iPhone to Northern Europe

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

STOCKHOLM (AFP) — Swedish-Finnish telecom operator TeliaSonera announced a deal on Tuesday to bring Apple's iPhone to the Nordic and Baltic countries.

TeliaSonera said in a statement it would begin selling the iPhone in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia "later this year."

Reached by AFP, the telecom operator refused to divulge any details about the deal.

The announcement came just under two weeks after French wireless carrier Orange, which already sells the iPhone in France, said it had agreed to market the phone in more than a dozen countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean.

And at the beginning of May, British mobile phone carrier Vodafone said it would distribute the handset to customers in 10...