SA's second mobile operator, MTN, has confirmed it will offer Apple's iPhone 4 in the coming month; however, packages and pricing have not yet been revealed.
This comes after Vodacom CEO Peter Uys announced last week that Vodacom will have the iPhone 4 available in SA by the end of the September. Last month, Vodacom lost its exclusive arrangement to resell and distribute Apple's high-end iPhone 4 in SA.
At the time, Vodacom indicated that MTN may start offering the iPhone, but MTN responded saying it would not comment on market rumours.
Vodacom, through its relationship with Vodafone, has been the exclusive reseller of the iPhone in SA for almost two years, beginning with the second-generation iPhone 3G and then the iPhone 3GS.
However, due to South African law, Vodacom was unable to lock those phones into its network, and had to sell them for use not only its own network, but also on any of the country's two other networks – Cell C and MTN.
