iPhoneWorld.ca . .After 2 weeks, on August 22 Apple plans to unveil iPhone 3G in 20 more countries:
* Argentina (America Movil)
* Chile (Claro/America Movil, Movistar/Telefonica)
* Colombia (America Movil)
* Czech Republic (Telefonica O2)
* Ecuador [...]
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Written by David on August 7th, 2008 with no comments.
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We already covered the news on Apple’s talks with DoCoMo on selling the iPhone in Japan. Now, according to Information Week, the companys chances to win over its main competitors -Softbank and KDDI- are even bigger. As the Nikkei news service reported from Tokyo on Wednesday, Google will provide a cluster of its services for NTT DoCoMo. Google is already an important partner of Apple in the US. NTT DoCoMo is to benefit from Google services including search, e-mail, calendar, and photo-sharing options over DoCoMo’s i-Mode network.
DoCoMo is the biggest mobile service provider in Japan. Together with Softbank (another popular provider in Japan) DoCoMo is using the WCDMA infrastructure, which is far better than Apple’s Edge/GSM in Europe. Adapting to the local infrastructure’s specifications remains to be the biggest challenge for Apple.
Japan’s second largest mobile services provider: KDDI, is not posing a threat to its competitors in the run to provide iPhone in Japan. The main reason for that is the highest quality of infrastructure used by KDDI. KDDI’s CDMA2000 makes it even more hard for Apple to adopt its iPhone to its specifications.
Apple must be ready with all the adjustments needed to operate in technologically advanced Japanese infrastructure soon, as it has announced to introduce America’s handset in Japan 2008.
Thanks: www.informationweek.com
Written by Krzysztof on December 27th, 2007 with no comments.
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A partner of the Japanese DoCoMo, KTF hopes to be supplying the iPhone in South Korea sometime next year.
KTF seems rather confident that they will be the main provider of the iPhone for S. Korea, and if DoCoMo (KTF’s second largest shareholder) can succeed in nabbing Japan’s provider status, they’d certainly gain a chunk of revenue out of it. Steve Jobs’ ‘OK’ of the deal is apparently the only thing holding KTF back.
“We want to sell it, but Steve Jobs has been playing hard (in the negotiation),” says Vice President of KTF, Kim Yeon-Hak.
He continued with: “It’s difficult because the size of the Korean market is small. But someday we will do it, using our relationship with NTT Docomo.'’
We will continue to cover the iPhone moving into KTF’s hands as more pops up.
Thanks: The Korea Times
Written by patrick on December 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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This last Wednesday, DoCoMo confirmed they were in talks with Apple, and it’s almost entirely expected to be related to the iPhone’s Japan debut.
Although Apple was said to be in talks with both DoCoMo and Softbank (two of Japan’s top mobile providers), talks were delayed most likely because of Apple’s terms of the deal, related to sharing of revenue.
“It is true that Mr. Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. and our president (Masao) Nakamura held a meeting,” says a spokesman from DoCoMo, but didn’t say anything more than that, such as what happened in the talks. Despite all the little delays, the iPhone is expected to come out in Japan by 2008, since waiting any longer would severely hinder Apple’s chance of making any impact in the country.
Thanks: Apple Insider
Written by patrick on December 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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Apparently, Apple is looking to get into Japan with it’s extremely popular iPhone - and getting laughed at for its amount of demanded share in revenue.
In talks with both DoCoMo, and Softbank (First, and Third top providers in Japan), Apple can’t seem to convince them that it’s ‘only fair’ - though this isn’t the first time Apple was shot down for its wants.
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Steve Jobs went and met DoCoMo President Masao Nakamura previously in San Francisco to discuss the deal, and a source had this to say: “The negotiations are not going smoothly, as Apple’s conditions are extremely hard to meet,”
The source went on to say: “The ball is in Apple’s court right now.” - If this is the case, they must be pretty upset due to the laughable response by the two providers.
Japan is probably the most likely place for the iPhone to receive critical acclaim for the future, being such a technology-oriented nation.
Thanks: Reuters
Written by patrick on December 18th, 2007 with no comments.
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