In international news, Apple has opened an online store in Brazil, and iPhone customers in Canada are soon going to receive a choice of carriers.
First up, Apple has finally launched a Brazilian online store. The opening of the store in Brazil had been rumored for awhile and finally came to fruition yesterday. If you go to apple.com/br you are greeted with this lovely message:
In other news, if you live in Canada and are fed up with Roger’s cell service, you will soon be able to chose between Telus and Bell.
Both Bell Canada, and Telus Corp. announced yesterday that they will be partnering with Apple to deliver the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, and will be available on their networks sometime in November. It goes without saying that this agreement will bring an end to Roger’s iPhone exclusivity in Canada.
Telus and Bell have both released statements confirming the agreement, although pricing and cellular plan information is yet to be released. What information that is available can be found here, and here.
Recently, the two companies partnered to upgrade their networks from the iPhone-incompatible CDMA frequency, to the iPhone-friendly HSPA standard. This news comes only a few weeks after U.K. iPhone owners found out that exclusivity with O2, and that Vadafone and Orange would soon be carrying iPhone.
Now, only if the U.S. could get a second carrier. That said, the only other network in America that would be iPhone-compatible would be T-Mobile.
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