London - O2, Apple's iPhone
launch partner in the U.K.,
was forced to stop taking pre-orders for the device Monday when a crush of
customers who received text messages of the offer from the company crashed the
site, The Register reported. O2 had offered to have the iPhone delivered via
courier on Friday to customers placing a pre-order. "The response was so
great that the online store completely sold out of iPhone 3Gs within just a few
hours," the company said. "Though O2 had invested several million
pounds to increase the order capacity of the site, at times the site still
couldn't process the sheer weight of demand."
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