iPhone demand overwhelms carrier
Andrew Colley | June 17, 2008
EXCERPT: MOBILE carrier Vodafone Australia’s pre-registration website for the iPhone has lured about 40,000 visitors daily since the telco opened the site early last week.
The website allows consumers to sign up to purchase the iPhone ahead of the July 11 launch date.
It is not clear how many visitors to the site have pre-registered to purchase the phone.
Optus also has an iPhone pre-registration website.
It offers priority queuing to customers willing to lodge a holding deposit for the device.
By early this week, however, it had stopped accepting advanced deposits for iPhones, citing problems keeping up with customer demand for the new handset.
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Optus pulls iPhone pre-registration
EXCERPT: Optus has pulled pre-registration on the hotly anticipated Apple iPhone.
The network was accepting pre-registration up until early this week, but has now pulled the registration feature on the website due to overwhelming demand.
The optusiphone.com.au website now allows users to check for updates on the mobile.
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Video re-post below from January 2008
iPhone in Australia - See Video HERE
