Chunghwa Telecom finalized a deal to be the sole supplier of Apple's iPhone 3G in Taiwan, the company said in a statement Saturday. The popular smartphone will be available by the end of next month.

The company indicated that it will be part of the third round of Apple's global iPhone 3G rollout.

Apple in late August concluded the second phase by adding 21 new countries to the iPhone 3G fold, including Argentina, Estonia, Slovakia and Uruguay.

The third round could include China.

Taiwanese mobile phone service providers never launched the original iPhone because a Chinese language input system for the device had not yet been developed. Two Taiwanese executives at the time said the iPhone would launch in China first because the Chinese language input system, Pinyin, would be finished before the one for Taiwan, Zhuyin (Bopomofo).