Canada's Rogers Wireless yesterday issued the following all-too-brief statement from CEO Ted Rogers: "We're thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the
iPhone to Canada later this year. We can't tell you any more about it right
now, but stay tuned."

"It was widely expected that Canada's largest cellphone carrier would land the iPhone as it is the only compatible network in the country, but it was also suspected that Rogers' high data rates stymied any talks between the company and Apple," notes The Financial Post's David George-Cosh.

"The telco has support for 3G in the form of HSPA, so our guess is that Rogers will skip the v1.0 iPhone altogether and start out with the 3G version expected this summer," writes Wired's Charlie Sorrel. "Also, the growing possibility that the new iPhone will be sold as a subsidized handset, without the subscription kickbacks to Apple, could be the last change that Rogers needed to sign up."

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