I walked into a Three UK shop just yesterday and asked why they don’t have the iPhone, and as usual I was met with an arrogant reply, some gibberish about how iphones are not here to stay, I think this fella had personal issues with Apple, anyway, you can imagine how surprised I was this morning when I was doing my daily web roundups and found out that 3UK are indeed in the iphone race as well.

That’s now the complete set of five UK networks all ready to take your name and credit card number on launch day, while Three is also the first to announce its pre-order start date — which it places at June 15, the same time that Americans will be able to pre-order. Three’s strategy in the UK has usually been to undercut the big dogs with alluring pricing, so next week should be a very interesting time for British iPhone lovers indeed.