Vodafone and Bharati Airtel have officially announced that they will be launching the iPhone in India on 18th and 22nd of August respectively!
Interestingly, both the companies have not announced the pricing or the plan details for the iPhone 3G. Because of the one week lead of Vodafone, it is very unlikely that Airtel will announce its pricing plans before that.
Historically, contract plans are not so popular in India and whenever they were introduced, they failed invariably. Who will forget the INR 500 phones from Reliance which were plagued by the huge monthly expenses, called “club charges”. Nevertheless, in order to reduce the huge entry costs, Airtel and Vodafone may subsidise the handsets and may decide to charge higher monthly rentals, which may not come as a surprise.
Since both the companies are tightlipped on the pricing, it gives me a feeling that the handsets are bound to come with higher initial price tags.
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