Reuters:

“Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network,” Britain-based Vodafone said in a statement.

The plans for the iPhone in Australia will be very interesting – mobile internet is ridiculously expensive there at the moment and the iPhone is basically dependant on an unlimited data plan. While I was over in Australia recently with data roaming turned off my iPhone was pretty much reduced to a big, somewhat ineffective phone rather than a mobile internet sensation…

I had previously scoffed these rumours purely based on the mobile data costs in Australia. I’m sure my friends stuck back in Oz will be very glad to see I was wrong.