UK telecom operator O2’s CEO Matthew Key was in California last week to meet Steve Jobs, briefing him on the iPhone’s progress so far in the country. Key told FT that 200K iPhones should be sold in Britain by early January, in line with his expectations since the November 9 launch. A 3G version of iPhone is due next year and Key is confident that O2 will also have an exclusive deal for the new version of the phone.

He said the iPhone users are big data users, which is not exactly a revelation, considering the phone’s uses. About 60 percent are sending or receiving more than 25MB of data a month..by comparison, only 1.8 per cent of O2 ‘s other mobile customers on monthly contracts are consuming more than 25MB a month. This is on a 2G network, of course, though the Wi-Fi capability more than makes up for the lack of speed on phone network.

O2’s research found that customers who have Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) N95, which runs on 3G networks, access markedly less data compared with those using the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) device, another FT story said.