Reserved iPhone and clueless Telekom

I was walking down Schlossstrasse on a sunny October day, actually on my way to exchange a seat post for my bike. Stumbled upon a small T-Punkt store and on the spur of the moment, decided to inquire about the iPhone. Although Telekom via their merchandising arm T-Punkt, are the sole distributors of the iPhone in Germany, there were rumors that some shops would not have iPhones to sell. But the sales rep assured me that they would have some in inventory and took my name and telephone number. I also asked if it would be OK to pick up the phone on November 12 (sales start officially on the 9th of November) and he seemed quite confident that that would also not be a problem.

But he was entirely clueless as to the tarif structure that Telekom will have arranged for us (gullible?) geeks. in 17 days they will sell the darn phone, but they still don't now how much it will cost to use it? Give me a break? I fell kinda sorry for the sales reps. He also couldn't tell me if the German retail package will include a dock. But he did say that registration of the phone will take place in the store - not like in the US where you initialized the iPhone via iTunes.

Since I don't talk on the phone that much all I'm really keen about is a true data flat rate, be it in EDGE or the quite numerous Telekom WiFi hotspots. That is the reason I am getting the iPhone in the first place. But if they botch up the tarifs, or if their data plan is volume based I will probably back out and wait for the unlocked iPhone that is supposed to appear in France.