Repubblica.it reports that Telecom Italia will be launching the iPhone in Italy in the next few weeks for sale by the summer.

The new model is said to be based on 3G (UMTS) technology and will be sold originally through Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM). The 3G iPhone, however, will not be locked to any provider, but TIM will have the inital advantage with a few month lead time over other carriers.

According to MacRumors reader grigio, the main points are as follows:

1) Direct introduction of UMTS-capable 3G iPhones on the Italian market, skipping the current 2G version.
2) No revenue sharing, instead a higher selling price.
3) No permanent exclusive distribution by a single operator. Instead, TIM will be given the right to distribute the iPhone with some months of advance with respect to its UMTS competitors.

[Source: MacRumors]

If Apple decided to stop revenue sharing then iPhone can be sold worldwide just like the Macs. Lets hoep it won't be too expensive if Apple decided to increase price due to no revenue sharing.

This post has been edited by Moonflown: Apr 22 2008, 12:17 AM

wow...then i think asia country will also follow this plan when it is official launching.
then asia will get the 3G iphone and skip the 2G version.

Repeated thread
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/679264

oh no...not another rumors thread

just as i said in the other related thread about posting a new topic .. again about the 3G phone ... how many topic should we have on this 3G topic? is it such a big deal?

is it another .. "wait till the 3G iphone come before buying..." thread?
i used to be very passionate about posting here on the iphone forum but with recent new subforum , it has been flooded with lots of unnecessary stuff ..