O2 has confirmed that the new iPhone 4 will only be on sale to its existing customers inthe first month due to a shortage of supplies.

Further more only customers who have subscribed to mobile broadband, home broadband or mobile services before 24 May will be able to purchase the smartphone in the first few days.

New customers will have to wait at least a month to get the new phone.

O2 was reported to say” We want to make sure that out existing customers are given priorty so until at least the end of July only existing O2 customers will be able to get an iPhone 4 from us.Whether you are an existingO2 mobile customer looking to upgrade, or one of our broadband customers looking to move your mobile to O2, our iPhone stock is reserved exclusively for you ”.

O2 will sell the new 16GB iPhone for £209 w ith a monthly subscription of £30 on a 18 month contract. With a 24 month contract and a monthly subscription of £25 the phone will cost £279.

O2 recently announced that ‘unlimited’ mobile broadband contracts would end for smartphone users from 1 st October  but as a promotion, new customers will get unlimited data until 1st October and will need to buy bolt ons when their usage exceeds the monthly download limit of 750MB.

The new smartphone was launched by O2 on 24 June. Orange and Vodaphone will  provide mobile internet services for the iPhone but Virgin have yet to announce their deals.