We have received a lot of emails regarding Apple’s strategy. As we suspected Apple has a multi-carrier strategy throughout europe, with the exception of mainly countries like Britain, Germany, Spain and Austria.

In fact out of the 10 countries that Vodafone had announced deals back in May 2008, in 7 of them there is not an exclusive deal. [Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey]. We suspect that there are no exclusive deals in Portugal, South Africa or New Zealand either. This is probably GOOD news for those of you who live in Portugal, South Africa or New Zealand. We cannot confirm whether there were exclusive deals that lapsed or not. So drop us a comment on whether in your country there was an exclusive deal or not.

It turns out that Apple has been pretty open to multi-carrier deals around the globe. You can go and check it out yourselves at Apple’s site [Thanks to Dan and Clarissa for pointing that out].