iPad will have ‘dedicated tariffs’ on O2 UK, Orange and Vodafone also doing Western Europe and Australia

A bevy of identically worded UK carrier announcements has emerged in the wake of Apple’s statement about the iPad’s delayed international release. The good news is that you’ll be able to take your pick from O2, Orange or Vodafone, though the bad news, by the sound of their robotic PR, is that there probably won’t be too much price differentiation in their eventual offerings. Naturally, we’ll have to keep waiting until at least the May 10th pre-order date to find out how much an iPad will set us back with either of them. Concurrent with its UK announcement, Orange has revealed it’ll also offer iPad plans in Switzerland, France and Spain, while Vodafone adds Germany, Italy, Spain and Australia. We’ve also heard from an insider at O2 that the network operator will not itself stock the iPad, with only Apple’s retail, web and “authorised dealers” offering the device for purchase.

[Thanks, Rob and anonymous O2 tipster]

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