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Bharti Airtel will sell iPhone 3GS in India

Bharti Airtel has announced that it has reached an agreement to sell the iPhone 3GS in India. Bharti Airtel is the largest cellular service provider in India, with more than 124 million subscribers. In a statement, Bharti Airtel said the agreement would allow Bharti to bring the latest iPhone to India "in the coming months" without setting an exact release date.

The iPhone 3G has been sold in India by both Bharti Airtel and Vodafone since August 22, 2008, but the iPhone 3GS has yet to go on sale. Most Indian service providers struggle to ensure decent call quality and while the rest of the world is preparing to adopt 4G, India is gearing up to welcome 3G. The announcement came a day after Bharti submitted its bid in a bandwidth auction for 3G mobile telephony services in India. The successful bidders will be allowed to offer 3G services on a commercial basis from September 1st. At present, no deal has been announced for the iPhone 3GS at Vodafone.

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March 24 2010 at 12:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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I think it is totally off the mark to call indian service providers are struggling with call quality. I am from india, a telcom engineer and have spent a lot of time in the us and think us networks lag behind Indian networks both in terms of coverage and call quality.

India already has running 3G networks at some places by govt. The bid war is for the private operators. Of course people don't have money to shell out for 3g and hence less incentive for operators to roll out everywhre as well.

And same is the case with iPhone sales. Am sure the sales of 3gs are going to suck more.

March 19 2010 at 4:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gafguru

Its sad that we had to wait so long. It was 5 months before we got the 3G.. and still don't have the 3GS.
Apple will release the 4G in 3 months time and we'll have the 3GS then. Wow. And Apple wonders why there is a grey market for these phones.

Sigh.

March 19 2010 at 1:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
GrimReaper

I'm just curious where you got that "Most Indian service providers struggle to ensure decent call quality". I have relatively experienced the exact same call fail rate as the US and in cities like London, the networks are horrible compared to Indian cities.

It is true that 3G is just being bid upon which sucks however.

March 19 2010 at 12:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Raghu

Have to agree with you. I never really had cell issues, and the call quality is better than AT&T's. I think most companies anywhere use a better codec than AT&T. The big issue with Indian phone companies (land line included) is the back-end switching... I keep getting that "All lines are busy" message when I call there.

March 19 2010 at 8:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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