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Vodafone and Apple today confirmed that they have reached agreement to offer iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in the UK in early 2010.  This announcement follows on the heels of Orange’s own announcement yesterday that they would be joining O2 in offering the iPhone in the UK, bringing the total number of operators offering the iPhone in the UK to three.  Our office speculates that T-Mobile may soon offer the iPhone to its customers as well due to their merger with Orange.

The Telegraph reports rumours that Virgin Mobile are also attempting to secure the right to sell the iPhone.

Competition for iPhone customers may lower the price of an iPhone plan; in foreign markets with multiple operators offering the device, the cost of an iPhone contract was lowered by around £5/month.

Orange UK and Apple have announced an agreement to bring iPhone 3G and 3GS to Orange UK customers later this year.   Orange will sell the iPhone in their shops and on their website as well as through selected high street partners.  O2 will continue to offer the iPhone, giving customers a choice of carriers in the UK market.

We wonder when T-Mobile will also announce offering the iPhone to their customers.  As T-Mobile and Orange announced earlier this month, they will be merging their companies and the signing is expected to take place at the end of October.  The merger will probably give T-Mobile the right to offer the iPhone.  We imagine that T-Mobile will not announce adding it to their offerings until after the signing.

We’ve just released our September update! Although this release was mostly about shifting around some of the cogs and gears behind the scenes in order to make it easier for us to expand our monthly bill tracking features in the coming months, we still have a couple of new features to talk about.

First off, we now support full monthly bill tracking. You can sign up and have the system automatically build your personalised assessment each month, instead of having to resubmit it manually. This is just a baby step towards something much more powerful that we are working on, but signing up now will start to build a much more accurate recommendation as you continue to use the service. The system will still use your last three monthly bills for the moment, but we will be crafting some powerful new algorithms to stitch them together and create a complete tapestry of your usage.

Coincidentally, if you are looking to get a new contract this Christmas, now is the perfect time to sign up with BillMonitor. By the time your contract ends you’ll have enough data to get a great forecast for your next purchase.

Secondly, we are currently running a trial of a new version of the homepage. If you are lucky enough to be picked at random by our testing software you will be presented with a slightly reorganized front page. Feel free to drop us an email to feedback at billmonitor.com with any comments on either design.