| Author: Syed 06 Jul 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating:  Points: 6 |
NEW DELHI and SAN FRANCISCO—June 9, 2008—Bharti Airtel and Apple® today announced that they will be bringing the highly anticipated iPhone™ 3G to customers in India later this year. iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking that is twice as fast* as the first generation iPhone, built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs the hundreds of third party applications already built with the recently released iPhone SDK.
“We are delighted with the opportunity to bring the innovative iPhone 3G to India,” said Manoj Kohli, president and CEO, Bharti Airtel. “As India’s leading telecom operator, Bharti Airtel has always stood for innovation and customer delight. With our reach across the country and iPhone’s revolutionary features, we have a valuable proposition for our customers in India.”
“We are thrilled to be working with Bharti Airtel, India’s leading integrated telecom company, to bring iPhone 3G to millions of mobile customers in India,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s COO. “We can’t wait to get this revolutionary product in the hands of even more people around the world.”
Soon customers will be able to purchase iPhone 3G at Airtel Relationship Centers. Details of pricing and availability will be announced at a later date. Airtel customers who wish to receive more information on iPhone 3G can send an SMS with keyword "iPhone" to 54321 (toll-free).
*Based on 3G and EDGE testing. Actual speeds vary by site conditions.
Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is India’s leading integrated telecom services provider with an aggregate of 66.69 million customers as of end of April 2008, consisting of 64.37 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel has been rated among the best performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list 2007.
Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units—Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business provides mobile and fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles. The Telemedia business provides broadband and telephone services in 94 cities and is foraying into the IPTV and DTH segments. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel’s high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 73,787 kms covering all the major cities in the country. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connect two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visit www.bhartiairtel.in.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.
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| Author: ranganathan 06 Jul 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 4 |
Hi Aromal ,
Its really a shocking news for all those who are expecting the release of the iphone 3g including me.
Whether the service providers (airtel & vodafone) announced the price or any news about the price ?
Where you heard about this? the iphone 3g costs 22000?
Can you please provide the source of this news?
Waiting for your reply...........
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| Author: Ankush Das 06 Jul 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 5 |
No everyone. Don't loose hope yet. According to some Vodafone sources, the iPhone will cost around Rs.9000-15000 for the 8GB model unless the Indian Government really charges a high import duty and levies high taxes on it. Don't worry, these are rumors and they will eventually die down in October when it will be launched in India. Unless something really bad happens, it won't cost above Rs. 20000.
TILL THEN HAPPY SAVINGS TO EVERYONE FOR THE iPHONE!
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| Author: Aromal 07 Jul 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 4 |
Hi Ranganathan
Ya it was shocking for me too!
I got this information from a feature in a leading Malayalam news channel.They were telling that Airtel unlike its US and European counterparts were not willing to subsidise the iphone which will result it to cost around Rs20000.But they didnt mention about vodaphone as such but was hinting the same.
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