Mark your calendars for August 22, when many countries will start offering the iPhone 3G for sale. Here's a list of the countries that are expecting launches that Friday (and their associated carriers, in parentheses):
- Argentina (America Movil)
- Chile (Claro/America Movil, Movistar/Telefonica)
- Colombia (America Movil)
- Czech Republic (Telefonica O2, T-Mobile, Vodafone) Thanks, Luke and Tom!
- Ecuador (Porta/America Movil, Movistar/Telefonica) Thanks, Andy!
- El Salvador (America Movil)
- Estonia (TeliaSonera, EMT)
- Guatemala (America Movil)
- Greece (Vodafone Hellas)
- Honduras (America Movil)
- Hungary (T-Mobile)
- India (Bharti Airtel, Vodafone)
- Latvia (TeliaSonera)
- Lithuania (TeliaSonera)
- Paraguay (America Movil)
- Peru (Claro/America Movil, Movistar/Telefonica)
- Philippines (Globe Telecom)
- Poland (Orange, Era)
- Romania (Orange)
- Slovakia (T-Mobile, Orange) Thanks, Hannah and Bulu!
- Uruguay (America Movil)
Apple said last month that 20 countries would be getting iPhone 3G on the 22nd. Singapore is also rumored to be releasing the iPhone 3G that day, but SingTel hasn't confirmed their participation yet.
In other news, Virgin Mobile is now offering iPhone 3G service in Australia. This addition gives the country four providers to choose from: Vodafone, Optus, and Telstra are the other three. Sadly -- according to this article, they're already out of stock.
[Compiled with help from setteB.it, VentureBeat and AppleInsider.]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
8-06-2008 @ 6:26PM
ebarrera said...
We already have the iPhone 3G in Mexico
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8-06-2008 @ 6:31PM
Santi said...
Justo iba a escribir eso
8-06-2008 @ 6:32PM
Robert Palmer said...
Fixed that. Gracías!
8-06-2008 @ 6:27PM
Hannah said...
Add Slovakia to the list. And the carriers are T-mobile and Orange.
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8-06-2008 @ 6:35PM
Robert Palmer said...
I added this one, too. Thanks!
8-06-2008 @ 6:28PM
Squid7085 said...
Man, if only the ability to select your carrier was avaliable in the US. Damn that exclusivity agreement, T-Mobile using odd Frequencies, and Sprint and Verizon using a different netowrk technology
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8-06-2008 @ 6:29PM
Brassen said...
In Brazil there will be 2 carriers (confirmed), Claro and Vivo. But sales only closer to end of the year.
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8-06-2008 @ 6:45PM
aleenm88 said...
As usual you think that in Mexico we are after USA.
Just to let you know, the iPhone 3G was released on July 11! The same day as USA and all the other 21 main markets.
DUH!
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8-06-2008 @ 6:52PM
Robert Palmer said...
That's nice, tar me with that fat racist brush. Go on.
8-06-2008 @ 6:55PM
Ints said...
Are they updating language support on the 22nd as well?Wouldn't it be nice if they actually include language support for these countries. Being Latvian, I would love to see my language included as a choice so I can communicate in my mother tongue.
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8-06-2008 @ 6:57PM
Chris said...
It's nice that Oz gets their choice of four providers, while we here in NZ have to bend over and take it from Vodafone. Most expensive plans in the world (so far).
It'll be interesting to see what kind of plans come out on the 22nd. If places like Estonia, Honduras, and Uruguay have cheaper plans than NZ, I think everyone in this country should grab their pitchforks and torches.
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8-06-2008 @ 8:20PM
Drew said...
Oz gets a choice of *3* providers, not 4.
Optus, Vodafone, Telstra and Virgin Mobile. Virgin Mobile is a wholely owned subsiduary of Optus, so is on the same network. 3 is not an official carrier although people are using 3 with unlocked phones that have been purchased and unlocked legitimately. Might want to update the home page to reflect this.
8-06-2008 @ 6:58PM
Plinio Correa said...
in Chile there are two carriers that'll be selling the iPhone: Claro
(which is part of America Movil group), and Movistar (part of
Telefonica)
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8-06-2008 @ 7:10PM
Preetam Rai said...
Singapore (Singtel)
8-06-2008 @ 7:23PM
Alex said...
Let me clear out a misunderstanding
In Argentina and most of Latin America, the iPhone will be carried by Claro, which is a subsidiary of America Movil.
There is also speculation that Movistar and Personal will also carry it, that is, all major Mobile Networks in Argentina excluding Nextel.
Greeting
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8-06-2008 @ 8:02PM
NickP said...
No chance of iPhone coming on CDMA, even Verizon is moving to LTE (4G based on same underlying technology as GSM)...
Most of the rest of the world saw it coming and A LOT of networks moved from CDMA (even EVDO) to HSDPA/UMTS and some even back to GSM with 3G overlays in the works.
Having less handset choices and pricing models and terrible pricing on network infrastructure is what killed CDMA in a lot of countries, and hence why you have multiple providers for iPhone in many markets.
Our inept FCC on frequency allocations are what causes the mish mosh of GSM and UMTS frequencies in the US, NOT the carriers.
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8-06-2008 @ 8:27PM
Bulu said...
you forgot (at least) Slovakia. http://www.orange.sk/sk/novinky/iPhone_22.8.html
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8-06-2008 @ 8:30PM
mylan said...
And here is link to T-Mobile Slovakia page about iPhone: http://www.t-mobile.sk/iphone/najnovsie_informacie.html
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8-06-2008 @ 9:44PM
maijc said...
i know nobody is interested in the thing i going to say, but:
guatemala is going to have the iPhone in their 3 only carriers they have:
Comcel or Tigo
Telefonica or Movistar
&
America movil or claro or PCS or telgua movil
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8-06-2008 @ 10:19PM
Skoalbandit said...
Maybe TUAW should change it's name to to The unoffical Apple Iphone Weblog. Think you need a new blog just for the iphone because there is very little here that is not about the iphone. I love it too but any posts for anything else are few and far between.
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