TeliaSonera to bring iPhone to the Nordic and Baltic countries

[bacaramac]

the att 3g uses 850/1900mhz frequency bands, teliasonera uses 2100mhz (and maybe 900 in finland). so you'll end up with a nice looking paper weight.

Does anyone know for sure that the new iPhone won't support all bands? Or most of them? I have a hard time thinking Apple is going to make different hardware just for different countries like the cell companies do.

 

[MacinJosh]

Does anyone know for sure that the new iPhone won't support all bands? Or most of them? I have a hard time thinking Apple is going to make different hardware just for different countries like the cell companies do.

There's one thing I know for sure: No one know anything for sure about the new iPhone. Everything is speculatiion.

Joshua.

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

What about the iPhone in Iceland?

 

[iWizzard]

What about the iPhone in Iceland?

Sorry dont think there are anny TCP/IP specefication for geyser signals...

 

[Evangelion]

It's too bad if Sonera sucks. I always assumed they were one of the best since Telia teamed up with them.

Sonera was a good company. Ever since they merged with Telia, things have started going downhill. Telia is just about the worst thing that could have happened to Sonera.

That said, they are not THAT bad even today. They are on the expensive side, true, but they are the dominant operator among business-users. The other operators are stonger among consumers.

 

[fimac]

Elisa

My employer owns my phone + SIM, and pays the bills... Hopefully iPhone will be sold unlocked or otherwise compatible with Elisa SIM

 

[mrzed]

The Swedish state should expropriate TeliaSonera. Telecommunications were much better (more stable, better access in rural areas and cheaper) when it was subject to public control.

The fact that the goverment owned company was more stable is true, but you have to remember that the market - as well as the entire telecommunication-industry - have changed totally since 1993 when Televerket was reshaped into Telia, stripped of many of it's responsiblities to PTS.

 

[t0mat0]

Sonera was a good company. Ever since they merged with Telia, things have started going downhill. Telia is just about the worst thing that could have happened to Sonera.

That said, they are not THAT bad even today. They are on the expensive side, true, but they are the dominant operator among business-users. The other operators are stonger among consumers.

Word on the street I heard was that last week France Telecom made a bid to buy up Sonera

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/06/vodafonegroup.telecoms