iPhone 3G In Indonesia

It's practically a foregone conclusion that Telkomsel, Indonesia's largest mobile telecommunications provider will carry iPhone 3G for the Indonesian market. Some of its other sister telcos already are selling iPhones in their respective countries; SingTel in Singapore, Bharti AirTel in India, Optus in Australia and Globe in the Philippines. Early rumors pegged the Indonesian release period for September 2008 but the month came and went with no peep out of anyone and no sign of the hottest phone in the market being released officially. Private imports and non-official iPhone 3G's and even older iPhones are selling like hot cakes regardless.

The latest news to hit the web is that Telkomsel, after several apparent delays, will launch iPhone 3G in January or February, in other words, Q1 2009. Now make note that Gadnix, the source of this news have not been around for very long but the site is staffed by veteran bloggers in the mobile phone world who used to write for 3G Week.

Also, none of the information provided in that page is new aside from the launch period and the length of the contract which is supposedly only 12 months, unlike in many other countries where they impose a 2-3 year locked in contract.

True or not, we'll find out by end of February.

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Dec 04, 2008

Didi Laksana said...

Really excited to see this one coming to Indonesia..

Amir Karimuddin said...

Thanks for the link. Let's wait til Feb to see whether the story is really true or not :)

Dec 05, 2008

Bellamy Benedetto Budiman said...

Oh I sure do hope it's Telkomsel, so I don't have to change my number if it's locked LOL.

Dec 06, 2008

Brett McGuire said...

I'm not convinced that it's going to work - unless Telkomsel is successful in completely transforming the mobile phone market. Still, if this means we get an Indonesian iTunes Store, then great!

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