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Updated: iPhone in India – Bharti Airtel readies iPhone 3GS launch

Posted in 3G, iPhone, iPhone in India, iPhone Negotiations on Mar 19th, 2010

March 19, 2010: Thanks to dirt cheap prepaid (no contract) calling plans, and low average revenue per user (ARPU), India’s carriers have virtually no appetite (no margin room) to subsidize handsets. Now add in the fact that India’s networks had overwhelmingly relied on 2G, and have been far behind schedule in deploying 3G. This equation [...]

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India poised to hit the kill switch on 25 million Shanzhai phones

Posted in iPhone in India on Nov 30th, 2009

The headline in today’s Times of India reads – Chinese mobiles sans IMEI won’t buzz from Monday. What’s this all about? Mobile carriers in India will be required to hit the kill switch and shut off service to all mobile phones that do not have (or do not immediately obtain) a true International Mobile Equipment [...]

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Apple will not play in low-end phones, but will have a strategy in prepaid markets

Posted in China, iPhone, iPhone in China, iPhone in India, iPhone Indonesia on Jan 22nd, 2009

Update – January 22, 2009: Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster now believes a new iPhone model may be coming in June. More > HERE Via Jim Goldman’s TechCheck blog: “We (Piper Jaffray) cut our estimates on iPhone, but it’s more of a shift. The expectations of having a March launch of a new form factor [...]

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New (rumored) iPhone model may address the prepaid market

Posted in iPhone on Dec 16th, 2008

There have been plenty of rumors suggesting a low cost “nano” iPhone will make its debut at MacWorld 2009.  A smaller iPhone Nano?…or a full-size iPhone with no 3G and reduced storage? Hmmm? Regardless of the size (“Even the small talk will be big!”) of any new iPhone model that might be introduced at MacWorld … [...]

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iPhone 3G to launch on India's (BSNL's) 3G network in December?

Posted in 3G, iPhone in India on Nov 12th, 2008

iPhonAsia comment: As the post below notes, iPhone may soon be launched through a new carrier in India –  BSNL.  Will this launch be accompanied by significantly different pricing and distribution strategies? The crystal ball says “perhaps yes.”  And who knows … we might even see a new model iPhone in 2009 that will be [...]

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