aPhone for Vodiphone?

Sez the Vodablog:

Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network.

I'm scratching my head on this one, its a bit out the blue and details are very sparse - I held off blogging it until this evening as I was expecting more data and was very curious about the UK and Germany, Vodafone's major markets. But as Dean Bubbley notes:

There is no quote from either Jobs or Sarin - just two abrupt sentences. As I'm writing this (9am in London), the release isn't up on Apple's own site either. No details on pricing, contract length, how Voda will work with (or around) iTunes...

Yes - seems odd to me too and I'm writing 6pm London time, and still no razzmatazz at all.