17 Nov

Apple reaches iPhone deal with Thai mobile operator, in talks with competitors

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by Dan Moren, Macworld.com

While Apple has over and above to start selling the iPhone in all seventy countries it announced at last June’s Worldwide Developer Conference, that hasn’t stopped them from trying to talon down deals in other countries.


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True Move, Thailand’s third largest mobile operator, announced on Thursday that it had signed a deal through Apple to distribute the iPhone 3G in the country, according to Reuters. The statement did not give a date when the phone would be launched, saying solitary that it would be inside of “the coming months.” Meanwhile, the country’s largest provider, Advanced Info Service (AIS), told the news service that the deal was not exclusive to True Move, and that they (and the second-place operator, DTAC), were also in talks with Apple.

One of the barriers to entry in Thailand is the country’s lack of a fully-deployed 3G network, meaning customers would have to rely on the slower EDGE or GPRS networks for data. In etc., like many countries where the iPhone is not legitimately available, in that place is a comprehensive black emporium for the device, with some estimates putting the number of iPhones already in the country at over 100,000.