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The Telegraph of Calcutta, India, reported this Thursday that Apple has delayed the release of the now famous iPhone in India until mid 2008. Although India is one of the world’s fastest growing cell phone markets, release of the iPhone is being delayed until a year after US release and half a year after release in Europe. The Telegraph attributes the delay to Apple’s fears of gray market sales and compares the situation to that of the iPod about which it says “official sales of the iPod are dwarfed by indistinguishable lookalikes in the grey market.” Clearly the Telegraph was not referring to gray market sales but to counterfeits and look alike knock offs.  Rumor has it that the iPhone’s activation mechanism will prevent traditional parallel market sales.  Only time will tell.  Unfortunately for Indian consumes that time won’t arrive for a while.

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