iPhone 3G to launch in India without the 3G?
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 18, 2008 at 12:40pm
As the Apple iPhone 3G gets set to launch later this week in India there remains just one small problem: India hasn’t got an operational 3G mobile network yet, reports IT Wire.
Both Bharti Airtel and Vodafone are set to start selling the communications later this week, but there’s no 3G network to run it on. Apparently, there’s a dispute between the Indian federal finance and telecommunications ministries over whether Evolution-Data Optimized (EVDO) licenses can be awarded according to subscriber numbers in any given region as suggested, notes IT Wire. The Indian Telecom Regulatory Authority seems adamant that current CDMA operators cannot be awarded licenses in this manner.
According to IT Wire, analysts are now reporting that this latest regulatory snafu could mean that 3G won’t arrive in India until well into 2009 “at the very earliest.” Even then, rollout issues mean that it would be restricted to as few as one in five users for the next four years.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
