‘setteB.IT’: 3 Italy wanted the iPhone, but Jobs didn’t answer the calls
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jun 4, 2008 at 4:32pm
By Fabio M. Zambelli
Today mobile carrier 3 Italy showed the new La3 TV channel for mobile phones. Later Vincenzo Novari, CEO of 3 Italy, told media representatives that “we are clearly super-interested in the iPhone.”
“We can sign any kind of contract with them but Steve Jobs didn’t answer to my two email messages” added Novari. Mobile carrier 3 Italy will wait for a while. If nothing happens with Apple, they may ask officials to look at antitrust issues
Currently, the iPhone will be sold in Italy with two major carriers: TIM and Vodafone. There are four mobile carrier in Italy: TIM, Vodafone, Wind and 3. In June 2007 Novari told setteB.IT this about the iPhone in Italy: “You need to ask Vodafone, as they’re working on it. We don’t have contacts—but we would.”
You can read more about it here. (setteB.IT is an Italian language web site for Mac users and one of Macsimum News’ partners.)
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Dennis Sellers
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.
