iPhone in Asia

Singapore Telecoms announced that it has signed a deal with Apple to carry its iPhone on its networks in Singapore, India, Phillipines and Australia some time later this year. Singapore Telecoms owns SingTel, Bharti Airtel, Globe and Optus in each of the respective markets.
The telecom did not disclose other information about the deal.


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Avaible in:
USA (AT&T)
UK (Telefonica O2)
Ireland (Telefonica O2)
Germany (T-Mobile)
Austria (T-Mobile)
France (Orange)

Planned in:
Singapore (Singtel)
India (Bharti Airtel & Vodafone)
Philippines (Globe)
Australia (Optus & Vodafone)
Italy (TIM & Vodafone)
Czech Republic (Vodafone)
Egypt (Vodafone)
Greece (Vodafone)
Portugal (Vodafone)
New Zealand (Vodafone)
South Africa (Vodacom)
Turkey (Vodafone)
Canada (Rogers)
Latin America (unspecified but America Movil has the rights)

Google helps to build submarine cable

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Web search company Google Inc has agreed to build an undersea cable with five telecoms operators that will link the United States to Japan, and provide the capacity to sustain a surge in Internet traffic between the continents.

Google and the five telecoms companies said in joint statement that the 10,000 km (6,200 mile) undersea fiber optic cable, connecting the United States to Japan, will cost $300 million.

Google's partners in the consortium, dubbed Unity, comprises Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, KDDI Corp, Pacnet, and Singapore Telecommunications.
The cable will provide much-needed capacity to sustain unprecedented growth in data and Internet traffic between Asia and the United States.

The consortium said it has picked NEC Corporation and Tyco Telecommunications to construct and install the system, which is expected to be ready for service in the first quarter of 2010.

It seems that Google forgot his plans for wireless spectrum.

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