IPhone 4 for the first time in India this Friday with a strange, upside-down support plan

In most countries of the world, when you buy an iPhone, you do not pay in advance a small initial fee, but the rest of the price of the device is baked in your contract for two years, which paid off in monthly installments. In India, though? It's a completely backwards ... And a complete stranger.


When it launches iPhone 4 in India on Friday, will cost a huge amount of money in advance through the carrier Aircel: Republic of Srpska. 34500 (760 $) for the 16 GB model and Rs. 40900 (900 $) for the 32 GB one.

Here's where it gets interesting, though. Instead of the carrier to support the cost of your iPhone, in India, you can support mainly Aircel to provide services to 4 von you to the next four months and twenty, with Aircel, "paying you again" in the appropriations broadcast over two
years until you, as they claim, "Recovering 100 percent of the cost of the iPhone in advance. "

Not quite, because the "loans" could be worth Aircel wants it to be worth. Would not be surprised if, in the end of the day, owning an iPhone 4 in India long-term costs more than it was in America, not less. More importantly, how many people actually afford to drop $ 900 in advance on the phone in a country with some of the worst poverty on the ground? Aircel think happens after the Bollywood elite.