Apple has secured deals with three European carriers to exclusively sell its new iPhone in their respective countries, a report claims.

T-Mobile, Orange and 02 will respectively carry the iPhone for Germany, France and the UK, the Financial Times Deutchland claims on a report echoed on the Internet by MarketWatch [1].

The three operators will announce their commitment with Apple at the IFA trade fair in Berlin, at the end of this month, the report adds.

It is also said in the report that the three carriers will pay 10% of their revenues generated by the iPhone to Apple. Apple and AT&T have signed a similar, two year, commitment for the U.S. market.

MacScoop posted [2] an exclusive report last week relating the possibility that France Telecom's mobile subsidiary, Orange may have already signed a deal with Apple over the iPhone's distribution in France. The report also provided details on the initial offering Orange made to Apple back in late May or early June. It included the initial purchase of 50 000 iPhones and subscription revenue sharing. However, MacScoop did not relate any exclusivity in the deal, as today's report suggests.

The French press, including publications such as Le Figaro [3], Le Monde [4], La Tribune [5] and Le Point [6], as well as international mainstream press, widely corroborated MacScoop's report, making France Telecom's stock the biggest performer of the French Index, CAC40, on August the 15th.

As announced at the beginning of the year, the iPhone went on sale in the U.S. on June 29. It is expected to be released in three European countries by the end of the year and in the rest of Europe and Asia during 2008.