Comments on: The iPad Ban in Israel: Is it Really About ‘Standards?’

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:50:55 +0000

It is getting easier. I got an iPhone for 1,599NIS through Modacom (US company selling here in Israel…via the net); see address/number below. Was a little nervous, but learned the wife lives here, the husband there. Getting ready to order the 3Gs, for 1,999. Can’t beat the price/service.

If you are nervous about buying over the net (although my Visa card will let me cancel should they not send me the phone), they will sell them and deliver locally (Tel Aviv / Ra’anana), but I didn’t want to pay 400 NIS more.

I called them at 052.775.2915 in Israel and 312.212.3668 in the States, but they may have a web site by now.

By: laurent

laurent — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:52:27 +0000

Hi Everyone – its seems that focusing so much on the technical aspects of the ban took the attention away from what John Le Carre always says: “follow the money”. The technical inconsistencies raised here are clear and obviously someone (if israeli consumers push hard) will have to address them.
First of all, our former prime minister and current President, Sir Shimon Peres used to be the minister of communication. His son, is one of the major shareholder in iDigital and the managing partner of the largest israeli VC. This guy is connected up the A.. to all possible government offices.
Remember the iPhone? How long did it take for israeli consumer to actually be able to get an iPhone??? how many israeli got their iphone before it was officially imported by iDigital? in other terms, iDigital lost millions because people outsmart them and bought their own iPhone.
My assumption is simple: they dont want to make the same mistake with the iPad and found a very easy way (and easy guy at the ministry of communication) to actually help them out with this little issue…;)
Follow the money track and you’ll see who’s benefiting from this ban… and it’s certainly not the israeli consumers.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:08:25 +0000

The maximum power is limited in software or firmware, so the same chipset can have different maximum transmitting power.
Different countries have different tx power limits, and the US allows higher power than Israel or EU.

Here is the freq/power regulations list by country:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/Database

It’s still doesn’t explain though, why they decided to ban iPad and not all other US electronics with Wi-Fi chips.

By: arie

arie — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:03:14 +0000

The real problems is that communication minister in Israel is leaded by a group of morons that does not have any clue about communication.

Israeli standars are same as european so the Ipad is OK from the standars point of view. Furthermore, there are lots of devices (Macs, Ipods Iphones) in Israel with similar standards already approved.

I believe now this morons are waiting for a leder to get down from the tree as it;s a joke all over the world.

By: zoteca (Zoteca)

zoteca (Zoteca) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:02:09 +0000

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The real reason behind Israel's temporary ban of the #iPad - greed! [link to post]

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By: israelblog (Israel Peace Blog)

israelblog (Israel Peace Blog) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:34:08 +0000

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The real reason behind #Israel's temporary ban of the #iPad - greed! [link to post]

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By: Commentator

Commentator — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:42:31 +0000

Why am I not surprised that in a country whose former Prime Minister is under police suspicion of bribe-taking (and this isn’t the first time high officials have been found to be corrupt), some lower level government employees are also apparently on the take?

As a friend and frequent visitor to Israel, I hate that this is so, but apparently Israel has become part of the Middle East in more ways than geography.

I’m shocked, shocked that there is corruption in the Middle East.

In this case it is for Apple to find a cure, and that remedy may lie in pulling the license of the local (non-Apple) distributor if possible, or sharply limiting shipments until he straightens out.

By: james braselton

james braselton — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:52:06 +0000

hi there we should refuse too help pro technolgies like japan soo japan has 40 gb/s or 40 gegabytes per second intenet soo you can fill a 64 gb ipad in 1.5 seconds or less and japan suport multi-terabyte ipods your right they dont ban 64 gb ipod touches wich has the same capacity as the 64 gb ipad it be some thing if it was a 640 petabyte ipad but we do have 1 terabyte ssd for concumers too buy but not petabytes or google bytes or super massive black hole ssd or hdd or LHDD for laser hard drives

By: newsgeek

newsgeek — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:12:14 +0000

Great comment! Unfortunately I think you’re wrong about the Ministry – it would take a lot more than one round of looking like fools to wake them up!

By: nukirk (Nukirk Digi.tal)

nukirk (Nukirk Digi.tal) — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:58:40 +0000

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