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Israel has banned imports of Apple’s new iPad over concerns the country’s regulators have with the gadget’s wireless signals potentially disrupting other mobile IT devices.
Israel has banned imports of Apple’s new iPad over concerns the country’s regulators have with the gadget’s wireless signals potentially disrupting other mobile IT devices.
According to Israeli customs, the ban is designed to prevent anyone from bringing iPads into Israel until officials certify that they comply with local radio transmission standards.
Apple’s iPad combines the features of a notebook computer with the touch-pad functions of the iPod and is in fierce competition with Amazon’s Kindle reader, which is not covered by the ban.
Israeli officials have stressed the ban was simply a precaution to make sure that the iPad would not adversely affect other wireless devices already in use in the country.
And although Israeli transmission standards are similar to those in many European countries, Israel is so far the only country to officially ban imports of the latest digital gadget from US IT giant, Apple.
