Steve!!! You forgot Belgium!!!!!!!
Why, o why !!
I am still waiting to buy my first mobile phone ever so…please Steve: bring it to BELGIUM !!!!

B*gger Belgium

An official Vodafone release gives these 10 countries as getting the iphone this year!

Australia,
the Czech Republic,
Egypt,
Greece,
Italy,
India,
Portugal,
New Zealand,
South Africa
and Turkey

WOW…I know everyone has been talking about China being big, but India has to be big news and move the stock…not sure if these are official numbers but the numbers are pretty big…according to this website, over 44 million subscribers to Vodafone and over 260 million users

India Market Breakdown Mar 08

India Market Share Data]

I can’t find any real statistics for Australia…but it looks like Vodafone is third in size…

More and more countries and providers coming in and this in parallel with an iphone shortage - not sure how this could wait till June?

nooooo forget about the 260 million users in India !!!
think about the one user in Belgium that is waiting for years to be himself his first mobilephone!!!!
That will move the stock way past 250$ 

Isn’t Belgium going to be unlocked / multi-carrier? So carriers wouldn’t have anything to announce.

but India has to be big news

Also at Reuters

“NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has about 114,000 mobile subscribers using Research In Motion’s (RIM) (RIM.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) (RIMM.O: Quote, Profile, Research) BlackBerry services, much lower than expected, the junior minister for telecommunications said on Monday.”

Not a big market for RIMM

I would think Apple would sell that # in four hours.

WooooHoooo New Zealand too !!! Thats two more sales, one for me and one for my wife.

lets just hope apple also have a vevenue deal on the contracts too ? 

[quote author=“dwn4crwn”]WOW…I know everyone has been talking about China being big, but India has to be big news and move the stock…not sure if these are official numbers but the numbers are pretty big…according to this website, over 44 million subscribers to Vodafone and over 260 million users

But how many of them can afford an iPhone? That is not a big number i guess.

[quote author=“sleepygeek”]Isn’t Belgium going to be unlocked / multi-carrier? So carriers wouldn’t have anything to announce.

Rumours are that the three carriers will bring out the iphone simultaneously…
(later this year…hopefully!!!!!!!!!)

And then there is this,

More iPods, More iMacs, More iPhones will come from this from our rocket science friends at MS.

these 10 countries present roughly 1.5 billion people!
so a 1% market share will give us 15mio iphones…
thank you Steve!!!!
and now bring that magic to Belgium

Two providers in Italy

Telecome Italy today also announced a deal to bring the iPhone to Italy.

Telecom Italia: has signed a deal to bring iphone to Italy

TELECOM ITALIA HAS SIGNED A DEAL TO BRING IPHONE TO ITALY
Telecom Italia announced today it has signed a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Italy later this year.

Rome, 6 May 2008

Via fscklog

The vodafone anouncement should give us a good run at $200 IMO
would be sweet to see a worldwide 3G iPhone roll-out in june (!)

edit: or am I missing something?

[quote author=“MaCroissant”]
edit: or am I missing something?

Two networks will jointly distribute the iPhone in Italy - a sign Apple’s stranglehold over the operators may be weakening…“This is definitely a sign Apple is capitulating,” Will Draper, an analyst at Execution
http://tinyurl.com/4mmfop

Edit : URL

[quote author=“Tullio”]

Two networks will jointly distribute the iPhone in Italy - a sign Apple’s stranglehold over the operators may be weakening…“This is definitely a sign Apple is capitulating,” Will Draper, an analyst at Execution

This is so ridiculous…capitulation…

Apple changed the way people buy cellphones and pay for data plans. The exclusive deal with ATT, I firmly believe was imposed by ATT during negotiations rather than a demand by Apple.  Apple was trying to find a service provider. ATT probably said, “OK, provided. . .”

Everybody wanting to sell the iPhone is a sign of strength not weakness.