Airtel to bring iPhone 4 in India
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 14:29 IST   |    8 Comments
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Airtel to bring iPhone 4 in India
New Delhi: The much hyped iPhone 4 would soon hit the Indian mobile market if all goes well between the country's largest telecom operator, Bharti Airtel, and the handset maker, Apple. "We are working with Apple. Hopefully in the September-October time frame we would launch the phone," Sanjay Kapoor, Chief Executive of Bharti Airtel (India and South Asia), told reporters on the sidelines of a CII conference. Earlier in June, Vodafone Essar had spoken of its plans to launch the iPhone 4 in India, without specifying a timeframe for the same. On the rollout of Broadband Wireless Access services in four circles - Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kolkata and Punjab - which it bagged for 3,314.36 crore, Kapoor said they were still to decide on the technology that will be used. Airtel, which won 13 circles in the auction of airwaves for third generation (3G) telephony spectrum, shelling out 12,295.46 crore ($2.73 billion), has also started gearing up its network to enable a quicker rollout of such services. Bharti Airtel already sells iPhone 3GS in India priced at Rs 35,500 for the 16 GB model and 41,500 for the 32GB model. Apple had last month announced the launch of the iPhone 4 with a sharper screen and video-chat features in an attempt to ward-off competition from devices running Google's Android software. "As far as 3G is concerned, a very large amount of the network is 3G ready. We are working towards an aggressive timeline," said Kapoor.
Source: IANS
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