BEIJING, Sept. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- France Telecom announced Thursday it will start selling Apple Inc.'s iPhone in France through its wireless arm Orange.

Thursday's announcement came three days after Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs took a swing through Britain and Germany to unveil similar agreements with mobile operator O2 and Deutsche Telekom AG.

The iPhone, a combined cell phone-iPod media player that also can wirelessly access the Internet, will go on sale in all three countries in November -- in time for the holiday season.

The latest deal was announced by France Telecom CEO Didier Lombard during a conference in Hanoi.

France Telecom will be counting on the popular iPhone to raise sales, boosting its share of the cell phone market. Jobs said Tuesday his goal was to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008, representing 1 percent of the global handset market.

Officials with Orange would not say how much the phone will cost in France.

Consumers in Britain will pay 269 pounds (536 U.S. dollars) for the 8-gigabyte model -- or about 139 dollars more than what Apple charges in the United States. In Germany the phone will cost 399 euros (553 dollars). Both European price tags include value-added tax.

The company cut the 8-gigabyte iPhone to 399 dollars, from 599 dollars, and discontinued the 499 dollar 4-gigabyte version. It apologized to those who had paid full price and offered 100 dollar credits to early buyers.

(Agencies)