As officially announced yesterday, Maxis will be launching the iPhone 3G on March 20th at KLCC Convention Centre. Malaysia won’t be alone, as its neighbour Indonesia will also be launching on the same date too.
Telkomsel has been identified as an iPhone 3G’s carrier in Indonesia and they have been accepting registration for pre-booking. This has been going on for several months and nobody has seen anything happen after that. Perhaps Telkomsel is collecting a database of interested users before hand which is a different strategy compared to Maxis surprise last minute pre-booking.
Today, they had sent a mass SMS to all users that had pre-register with the following:
Pelanggan YTH, Andalah yg pertama kami informasikan: Apple & Telkomsel dgn bangga akan menghadirkan iPhone 3G ke Indonesia, pd tgl 20 maret 2009 pkl 20:00 WIB.
This simply translates that “you” are the first to be informed that Apple & Telkomsel is proud to bring the iPhone 3G to Indonesia on 20th March 2009 at 8:00PM West Indonesia Time.
Similiar to Maxis, their iPhone 3G promo page is located at http://www.telkomsel.com/iphone/
Telkomsel iPhone 3G Plans
Telkomsel offers the iPhone 3G in Prepaid and 3 Post Paid plans.
For the prepaid, it costs about RM2968 for the 8GB version and RM3448 for the 16GB version.
While for the post paid, there are 3 plans with commitment of RM109/month, RM150/month and RM225/month respectively. The contract is available only for 12 months.
The price for the iPhone 3G for postpaid ranges from RM806 to RM1369 for the 8GB version and RM1255 to RM1819 for the 16GB version. These are calculated with today’s rate of RM1 = Rp3248.
From the looks of it, Telkomsel is offering a better deal than Maxis with the Telkomsel’s RM109/month plan having the 8GB iPhone 3G for only RM1369.
interesting!!!
By: cornerstonemortgages on March 13, 2009
at 2:35 am