When will i-phones hit India

There has been a lot of speculation about the possibility of using i-phones in India. So I thought of clearing the air regarding this.

It seems that both Airtel as well as Vodafone will bring the famed iPhone to India in the coming months. Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has recently announced in an official press release last week that it will bring Apple's iPhone to India, Singapore, Australia, and the Philippines this year. Sufficing that - Airtel India has also issued a separate press release stating it will bring the iPhone to India. We all know that SingTel has a stake in Bharti Airtel so the iPhone will be landing to Airtel via SingTel.
Vodafone had already announced last week that it is bringing the iPhone to India later this year, along with nine other countries - Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa, and Turkey. We already have confirmed dates with Telecom Italia announcing its deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Italy in the second half of the year. So we can also expect the iPhone in India too to be available via Vodafone around the same time.

If both Vodafone and Airtel manage to bring the i-phones in India, the situation becomes very interesting especially because of the fact that both the operators will compete for a large pie of the Apple iPhone market and this may subsequently bring down the prices of these multi utility phones. So keep watching my blog for more details.