Vodafone will be celebrating today. It will down some Champagne, move on to shots of whisky or perhaps tequila (even though it knows slamming tequila will give it a splitting headache tomorrow) and finish with a drunken punch-up.

After this, the telco will stumble over to Apple. It will throw one of its arms around the now repulsed Cupertino company, who has been sipping nothing more than mango smoothies all night, and start pumping its hand enthusiastically. Vodafone will then slur loudly into Apple's ear "You're my best mate, you are" and then fall down onto the scratchy conference room carpet, slipping off into a sloshed slumber.

The reason for this celebration? Vodafone has signed a deal with Apple to provide the iPhone in ten more countries. If your name is on this list, you too can come to the party:

Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey.