The most awaited mobile, iPhone 4 is going to hit the Indian mobile market soon. Talks are in progress between the country’s largest telecom operator, Bharti Airtel, and the handset maker, Apple.
Apple had last month announced the launch of the iPhone 4 with a sharper screen and video-chat features in an attempt to ward-off competition from devices running on Google‘s Android Operating System.
We are working with Apple. Hopefully in the September-October time frame we would launch the phone,” Sanjay Kapoor, Chief Executive of Bharti Airtel (India and South Asia), told reporters on the sidelines of a CII conference.As far as 3G is concerned, a very large amount of the network is 3G ready. We are working towards an aggressive timeline, added.
Bharti Airtel already sells iPhone 3GS in India priced at Rs 35,500 for the 16 GB model and Rs. 41,500 for the 32GB model.
Airtel, which won 13 circles in the auction of airwaves for third generation (3G) telephony spectrum, shelling out Rs.12,295.46 crore ($2.73 billion), has also started gearing up its network to enable a quicker rollout of such services.
