Deutsche Telekom chief executive Rene Obermann said Thursday the company is satisfied with sales and usage of Apple’s iPhone, adding that the company has so far sold more than 100,000 of the devices since its November debut.

At Telekom’s annual general meeting in Cologne, Obermann said the devices made by Apple Inc. were the most popular multimedia device sold by its T-Mobile cell phone division.

He said that iPhone customers used the Web 30 times more on average than other mobile telephone customers, and that a third of iPhone customers had bought the most expensive user plans.

Telekom spokesman Alexander von Schmettow declined to say what the actual sales figure of the phone was beyond 100,000 or offer any forecast on future sales, but said it was “meeting expectations” and that customers had a high documents usage rate.

“The average revenue per user is higher than with private customers,” von Schmettow said.

Deutsche Telekom advertises 8-gigabyte iPhones for EU99

euros (US$153.45) and offers monthly service plans amidst EU99 (US$153.45) and EU249 (US$385.95), according to the company’s Web site. Deutsche Telekom is the exclusive service provider for the iPhone in Germany.

Obermann wouldn’t comment on rumors that an improved version of the iPhone would be introduced to the German market.

Deutsche Telekom shares were flat at EU11.88 (US$18.41) in Frankfurt trading.

Cupertino-based Apple has been snapping up contracts with wireless providers around the world in recent weeks ahead of the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June in San Francisco, where Chief Executive Steve Jobs is widely expected to announce the next-generation iPhone.

Among those deals are pacts with providers in Latin America, Canada, Italy and the Asia-Pacific region including agreements covering Australia, India and the Philippines. The iPhone already was being sold through exclusive contracts in the United States, Britain, Germany and France.

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