MegaFon, one of Russia’s major mobile operators, started selling iPhone 3G in Russia on October 3, 2008. The operator’s tariff schemes that are part of the iPhone 3G package include a certain amount of prepaid traffic (ranging between 500 MB and 5 GB). Customers willing to make a preliminary purchase application may do so via the company’s website (http://www.iphone.megafon.ru/). After you fill in the electronic form online, you are given a personal order number. The tariff schemes description is also available via MegaFon Ural’s website www.megafonural.ru or over the phone (the service number is 0500), MegaFon’s press officer reports.

‘We are delighted to be Apple’s partner in iPhone 3G Russian sales. We are planning on selling package offers: the device itself and one of the tariff plans that have been specifically designed to meet the needs of various kinds of customers. This is going to be a product yet unique to this country’s market,’ says MegaFon’s Deputy GD for Commerce Larisa Tkachuk.