Apple's iPhone coming to Latin America on America Movil
By Darren Murph 
posted May 7th 2008 12:38PM
posted May 7th 2008 12:38PM
Just a day after we heard that Vodafone was taking the iPhone on a world tour, in comes word that Apple's darling will be headed to Latin America via America Movil. We aren't told if the deal is one of exclusive nature, nor were we given a specific launch date, but residents of 16 countries in Latin America will have their shot at latching onto an iPhone sometime "this year." Huzzah![Thanks, Jesus]
So just the regular iphone? i dont think America Movil even has a 3G network up so the new phone / price point would be pointless
Mexico has a 3G network.
As much as I hate Apple and their hardware, for the first time in a long time, the iPhone gave Americans a cellphone that wasn't light years behind the stuff they have on J-phone in Tokyo.
Claro (América Móvil) has a 3G network in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and several other countries.
and Peru xD
Doesn't matter. The 3G iphone will also have and Edge radio.
Claro, America Movil's company in Guatemala, just rolled out a city-wide 3G network, and will be 3G throughout the country by the end of the year. It's just the US that's still lagging in telecom :)
And Ecuador... In my country America Movil (Porta) is the only carrier (At the moment) that has a 3G network... good news indeed
America Movil (Comcel) in Colombia also has 3G, stop being so ignorant.
Oh wow. But is it standard European 3G?
I'm beggining to think us spaniards will be the LAST people on EARTH to get the iPhone.
LOL at "Thanks, Jesus"!
nobody fucks with The Jesus
the so called "jesus phone" was tipped off by Jesus himself!
i hear he dropped the "Son of God" tag after a run in with some Romans :O
In Brazil, America Movil (Claro) has implemented its 3G network using same 850Mhz of american AT&T. Claro is similar to AT&T in operation term, because it operates in 850Mhz and has coverage over almost whole brazilian territory.
I'll bet Brazil gets it before Canada.
Here in El Salvador, Central America we have 3G from Claro, the same as in Brazil. CLARO has gave some iPhone's to some people for testing, I can confirm this.
Here in Soviet Russia, phone camera watch YOU
Here on mars, aliens run around all day long making fun of us earthlings for not being able to find them!
OMG! Aliens exist!!!!1111one!
I can confirm rumors too! :)
-Taylor
America Movil has 3G in already in 4 Latin American countries, including Mexico and Colombia, were their 3G is way ahead of american 3G. In Colombia and Mexico you can already do video calling.
The same here in El Salvador
I wonder how much it will cost here in Mexico? last year, the LG PRADA was selling for $1,100 dollars with a $40 data subscription, so we will expect a price around that...
And what about Puerto Rico???
There is no iPhone here and our service provider is AT&T (2G and 3G).
When is apple going to release the iPhone in PR? PR is ruled by the FCC and has the same service providers as in the US. I don't get it.
By the way there is no America Mobile in PR.
Loko, they just said America Mobil is the same company as Claro... so maybe, just maybe this is PR's chance... and its true, being that AT&T is in PR, has 2G and 3G it's rather strange we never got the iPhone. You just know puertorricans are going to lap it up by the thousands maybe millions (we're about about 4.5 mil) ... maybe AT&T are just waiting for the 3G version... that's the one I would want anyway...
Just watch it, everyone and their little kid is going to get it here LOL...
and continuing with an Apple related topic... you can get iPods, Macs and "what not" Apple products here in the island, but when you want to buy from the online Apple Store (products, not songs) it doesn't let you... always hated that....
Claro is rolling their 3G GSM Network along the CDMA one already here in Puerto Rico, and they are part of america movil so time will tell for us here. Anyway I bought one unlocked and Im using it on SumCom.
we can activate the iPhone if you buy one in the US. I have one activated with AT&T.
Claro is America Movil. If they bring the iPhone to Claro, are we going to be able to active it with two different providers???
Claro is America Movil, so that means Claro (Verizon Wireless Before) will be the official carrier for the iPhone phone in Puerto Rico! huzzahh!
Dont know what you are talking about. If you buy an Iphone in an apple store you can activate it on ATT with your 787 or 939 number using Itunes no hack needed or required. The thing is that ATT in Puerto Rico dont tell you about it because they are not the ones that support the Iphone if it has problems, you have to bring it or ship it to apple for a replacemente. But there is Iphone in Puerto Rico, I have one with 787. ATT would deny it if you go to the local stores but if you call to the Iphone number on the ATT page they can confirm all I am telling you here...
Claro is on a CDMA network in Puerto Rico (it runs on the old Verizon network) so I don't know if the iphone will come to PR through Claro. As far as I know the iphone is GSM.
OOhhhhh, it's APPLE's iPhone.... Thanks for the clarification, i thought it might have been Cisco's iPhone that's coming to America Movil...
;)
-Taylor
Sure, cause here in Latin American nobody has bought hacked iPhones off eBay, and nobody uses them....
Great!
Maybe US$1000 for a 4GB iPhone? Plus US$200 basic month fee (no internet access)?
I'm going to get some at grey market.
mercado gris?
You think so? Because you can get that damn phone here in Argentina already unblocked for less than US$ 700 everywhere. So America Movil (Claro) will have to sell it cheaper than that if they want to sell some.
Indeed, In Mexico, if you want to get a good 'ol Nokia N73 you pay as much as $400 USD and a $35.00 for 18 month contract, I just can't imagine how much will mexicans will have to pay to Mr. Carlos $lim to get their precious Iphones, I knew it was comming since America Movil (Telcel in Mexico) announced the new 3G network and flat rate data plans.
OMG Really????? GREAT!!!!
Why must we read about every last country the iPOS is launching in?
Why must you comment on stories you don't want to read? Are you that unclear on how this works?
OK, I give up... f*ck the iPhone. F*ck Apple. F*ck Rogers. US companies proved to us that they don't give a f*ck about Canada...
Uh...Rogers announced it's coming a week or two ago...
Ted Rogers said "It's coming later this year"... It'll be "à la Steve Jobs"...
Rogers launch Apple's iPhone on December 31st 2008
Rogers is a US company?
hmm guess Canadians can be as stupid as us. who knew?
Look here. Sure, you want the iPhone, but you're in Canada and should be using a BlackBerry to support your brothers. There's most likely only handful of people who are going to buy the iPhone in Canada, so Apple can take it's sweet time getting it across the border. It'll hardly be worth Apple's effort to sell a few thousand iPhones to Canucks. Probably be claimed too expensive, anyway.
Hey dear americans... did you know that America Movil (Telcel) has a 3G network working in Monterrey City several months ago? Mexico had a 3G network even before NYC. Pfff
Bwa, no phone in Belgium yet..
Wow! Awesome! But you still wouldn't see me walking down the street in Mexico w/ an iPhone... I'd just be asking to get shanked and jacked
actually there was a guy killed in Mexico City while robbers were trying to steal his phone, what was it? a unlocked iphone...
When I was in the DF and Monterrey last month I saw tons of people with iPhones. These weren't norteamericanos roaming, these were locals using unlocked phones Telcel or Movistar.
Muy Bueno!
ay caramba!!!
Shame that is coming from Claro, since they do heavy illegal practices in Chile (Like sending pending bills to creditors and killing the people's credit reports, which is illegal for telephone service companies). Besides, their tech support absolutely SU**S, and their "3G" coverage is only available in the capital and the Valparaiso harbor (Strangely, the same coverage as Nextel).
I hope there's some capacity to have a situation like in Italy, where it will be carried by 2 operators.
you know you're bad off when you wish for Italian standards of corruption
Indeed. But when they ruin your credir report for being 20 minutes late to pay a $25 phone bill (That has only 80 outbound minutes / 80 SMS monthly), the Italian corruption seems like a very well regulated system.
actually Mexico is IN northamerica. latin america means speaks spanish, Brazil speaks portuguese...
Latin means anybody that speaks spanish, italian, portuguese, french, romanian, or any other language of latin orgin... daaaha. Ignorance is a bliss!
sherlock, i thank thee
and now American movil in jamaica.....so the Caribbean folks will get there hands on this also
Well. Now iPhones officially represented in Dominican Republic but we have iPhones everywhere lol 1 of every 10 people here owns an iPhone
Claro (America Movil) in Honduras, Central America (not South America) has 3G too. Come on Apple! Give us unlocked iPhones too!
In its announcement Wednesday, America movil announced it has signed an exclusivity deal with apple. it will arrive to Mexico in december.
America movil is also known as:
México / Telcel
Colombia / Comcel Colombia
Brazil, Argentina,Paraguay,Uruguay,Peru,Chile/ Claro
Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands/ Tracfone Wireless
Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras / Centroamérica Claro
Ecuador / Porta (Conecel)
Puerto Rico, República Dominicana , Jamaica / Caribe Claro y Mi Phone
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/504931.html
iCarumba. Only the Columbian cartel employees will be able to afford the iPhone. If the Latins are anything like those tight-fisted Europeans, Apple will only sell a half million or so and be thankful for that.
So the ones in Venezuela (cough Me) don't get the iphone? Why didn't Telefonica Movistar negotiate with Apple? it has a lot more clients than America Movil!...
besides that, i'm still wondering how are we going to active the iphone when a lot of latin american countries don't have the itunes store???
they've been selling ipods here for years...
Here in Paraguay, Ciudad del Este... we already use iPhones... they're being sold as water.
ANYBODY here can crack one of them and use it with ANY mobile company
CHEERS!
I'll not said "Thanks Jesus", I'll said "Thanks Carlos!"
Just for the record, the "America Movil" CEO is Carlos Slim Hélu)
Just came from vacation in Honduras and the phone is already available unlocked and up and running like in the states.
so... is Asia going to be next after Latin America? (pretty please!)
If you're living in Asia there's lots of nicer stuff avaolable to you.
America Movil is own by the second richest Man in the World: Carlos Slim and he owns 2% of Apple. That is something to count.!
i am latin american and claro (which is one of america movils companys) has 3g all over latin america and a good one
STOP BEING SO IGNORANT!!!!!!!!
Claro has rolled out 3G country wide in Honduras with 1900 UMTS HSDPA STANDARD
same as at&t
Same as all latin america!! everyone has 3G!!¡¡!
Check it out at www.americamovil.com