Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/05/orange_stock_blackberry_torch_9800_bandwagon/
Orange jumps on BlackBerry Torch bandwagon
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Posted in Phones, 5th August 2010 15:08 GMT
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Yesterday, we wrote that Vodafone was to sell RIM's BlackBerry Torch 9800 in the UK.
Our headline was wrong - we used the word 'exclusive', when we should have written first of the block - and we have changed the headline to reflect this.
For unlike the US where AT&T is getting a first run, RIM is spreading its affections with UK cellcos.
Orange UK is on board - although it doesn't have its act together yet on the publicity front, today issuing perhaps its shortest press release [1] ever, confirming it will stock the Torch.
Also demo units at RIM's London press launch yesterday all contained O2 SIM cards, according to people who were there. Which is a bit of a giveway, really.
Which leaves T-Mobile, 3 and sundry MVNOs to show their hand. Surely they can't be so very far behind.