According to AppleInsider, Apple is preparing to roll-out the iPhone 3G to an extra 29 countries for its third and final phase of international iPhone expansion in 2008.

According to the rumour site the iPhone 3G could go on sale in Brazil and South Africa as early as this Friday, September 26th.

Currently the iPhone is available in 44 countries but is expected to be available in 73 by the years end, these new countries are said to be Botswana, Brazil, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Madagascar, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Niger, Panama, Russia, Qatar, Senegal, South Africa, Turkey, and Venezuela.