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What Price iPhone 3G?

Last month we informed you about the August release of Apple’s iPhone 3G by Vodafone and Airtel; sprinkled with information on gray-market availability. While it’s now official that Airtel will bring the iPhone 3G to India on August 22nd, Vodafone’s Chief Marketing Officer, Harit Nagpal, confirms that Vodafone too will launch the iPhone on the 22nd of this month.

What ever happened to Vodafone’s 15-day advantage over Airtel’s launch date? Nagpal denies any such thing and adds that further ‘media information is on its way’.

Ever since Airtel announced the launch of the Apple iPhone 3G yesterday, the market has been abuzz with speculation about pricing. Even though we reported earlier that Airtel was planning to price the handset at an aggressive Rs.12,000, we talked to a source in Delhi who told us that Airtel will price the iPhone 3G anywhere between Rs 20,000 and Rs 25,000.

Another source close to a major network carrier has told us that there is no way it would make sense for either Airtel or Vodafone to price the iPhone 3G at Rs 12,000. “Given the duty component and other taxes, it won’t be viable for any service provider to price it at Rs 12,000. Rs 20,000 to Rs 30,000 should be more like it,” he said.

Moving on to the pricing at parallel markets, our source at Heera Panna, Mumbai, is offering the iPhone 3G for Rs. 55,000. He also claims to have sold 12 pieces till date. Another seller in Irla, Mumbai, has the 16GB iPhone 3G for Rs 32,000.

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