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TeliaSonera bringing iPhone to Nordic and Baltic markets
To our friends living in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia: welcome to the growing pack of iPhone-serviced countries! Telecom provider TeliaSonera just signed an agreement to bring the iPhone to these countries just in time for the (rumored) announcement of the 3G iPhone.
Apple is definitely spreading the love (and the exclusive carrier contracts) far and wide. I'm not even sure anymore which countries don't have service, presently or forthcoming, but I did get terrible grades in geography. Fortunately, our commenters will be sure to make up for my cartographic shortcomings.
Thanks, Olk, Mattias, Jari, Johan, Borger, Undero and everyone else who sent this in!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
ard said 6:14AM on 5-27-2008
Let me help you: The Netherlands!
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Brett Terpstra said 6:20AM on 5-27-2008
You would think someone with my last name might know that... but, no.
André said 6:15AM on 5-27-2008
Unfortunately Telia has non-existant 3G coverage in Denmark...
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Nik said 8:04AM on 5-27-2008
Er, Telia is the only contender on 3G to "3" as far as coverage and speed goes, and as far as I know Telia is the only phone company with EDGE in Denmark. So it makes good sense for Apple to pick Telia for Denmark. TDC has some kind of 3G but no EDGE, 3 has good coverage but also falls back to GPRS.
André said 8:23AM on 5-27-2008
Looking at the coverage-maps, I see a totally different picture.
http://privat.3.dk/daekningudland/Dakning/Dakningskort/
http://telia.dk/erhverv/produkter/mobiltbredbaand/daekning/
Sure, Telia has Edge coverage all over Denmark but 3 has full 3G (HSDPA) coverage.
Morten Pedersen said 6:26AM on 5-27-2008
A little side note concerning:
"Apple is definitely spreading the love (and the exclusive carrier contracts) far and wide."
There seems to be no indication in the announcement as to whether the agreement is exclusive or not.
In this "Interview" Alan Hely Apple spokesman in Europe repeatedly denies to comment on the plans... despite a quite stubborn journalist.
Amusing if you understand swedish:
http://di.se/Nyheter/?page=/Avdelningar/Artikel.aspx%3Fstat%3D0%26ArticleID%3D2008%255c05%255c27%255c286057%26SectionId%3DIT%26menusection%3DITTelekom%3BITTelekomNyheter
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Anders said 6:53AM on 5-27-2008
The interesting part is that in Finland it is forbidden to sell 2G or 2.5G cell phones with a subscription. Only 3G phones can be bundled with an operator subscription.
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Jakob Henner said 9:41AM on 5-27-2008
But we already knew this would be the 3G iPhone.
Anyway Telia's HSPDA coverage sucks and the speed is max. 3,6 Mbit, I would rather prefer 3 with 7,2 Mbit and 22 Mbit later this year (but the iPhone won't support that of course)
Drac said 7:13AM on 5-27-2008
Damn :-(
I am sorry to hear that.
If only Telenor would sell iPhone in Norway.. I guess Ill stick to my good old 1st gen then
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Øivind said 4:18PM on 5-27-2008
I'm happy Netcom will be selling iPhones. Telenor's service sucks. NetCom you can call 24/7, and they'll answer within a few seconds. With Telenor you'll have to go through an answering machine, and they'll be closed 50 % of the time. And don't talk about cell coverage, since they're pretty much equal in Norway. In addition, NetCom so far has the cheapest data plan.
Liron said 7:14AM on 5-27-2008
And Israel Too :(
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vin1013 said 7:20AM on 5-27-2008
You are not even sure anymore which countries don't have service? Let me help you: Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea.....to name a few!!!
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moukiori said 7:27AM on 5-27-2008
Hong Kong is not a country.
Russia?
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vin1013 said 8:41AM on 5-27-2008
No, Hong Kong is not a country. It's part of China. Nevertheless, there's no iPhone in Hong Kong.
Daniel Myrén said 7:46AM on 5-27-2008
yeah that interview was pretty funny. the reporter was pretty tenacious!
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mannenivitt said 8:26AM on 5-27-2008
The agreement is not exclusive! Telenor is still in the game.
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Sebdude said 8:40AM on 5-27-2008
I've read at nu.nl that that KPN.nl is talks with Apple about introducing the iPhone in the Netherlands!!!!! Finally... But there not saying if is an exclusive agreement or not, so T-mobile and Vodafone still may also sell it here.. http://tinyurl.com/4pftpm if you need help translating, let me know..
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Domi said 8:58AM on 5-27-2008
Belgium is not on the list neither :-(( Despite some hints that Mobistar would get a temporary exclusivity on the new iphone.
Lee said 8:59AM on 5-27-2008
Sniff, Sniff from Japan. If Docomo doesn't wrap this thing up and get me the iPhone, I'm moving back to America!
I guess I can see that it lacks alot that Japanese phones have, but I'm sure they can port some of their apps over with the SDK.
EJP said 9:19AM on 5-27-2008
I seriously doubt that consumer advocacy groups will allow exclusivity for long in the Nordic countries, at least.
I think also that we will see subsidized phones relatively soon after launch (within 6 months, if not right away). Especially if Apple delivers on business phone features such as push email. There is more smartphone saturation in the Nordic countries than just about anywhere else, save perhaps Japan.
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