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09-16-2016, 05:01 PM
An iPhone 7 has already made it to this man in the remote outback
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While some Australians (http://mashable.com/2016/09/15/iphone7-launch-global/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) were first in the world to grab an iPhone 7 from an Apple Store in Sydney Friday morning, it's much more of a challenge for those living in the outback.
Take Les Pilton, who has been running a pub in the tiny town of Barrow Creek in the **rthern Territory for the past 28 years. The town has a population of 4, and Pilton's pub is the only stop in a 500 kilometre (310 mile) stretch of road.
SEE ALSO: Around the world with the iPhone 7 launch (http://mashable.com/2016/09/15/iphone7-launch-global/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Pilton lives a good 300 kilometres (186 miles) away from Alice Springs, in the dead centre of Australia. It'd be quite the effort to pick up a new iPhone, so mobile carrier Telstra brought one to him in person. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/16/iphone-7-outback-delivery/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Video (http://mashable.com/category/video/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Outback (http://mashable.com/category/outback/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Telstra (http://mashable.com/category/telstra/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Apple (http://mashable.com/category/apple/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Iphone 7 (http://mashable.com/category/iphone-7/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/nuFSpKz6mWQ
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While some Australians (http://mashable.com/2016/09/15/iphone7-launch-global/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) were first in the world to grab an iPhone 7 from an Apple Store in Sydney Friday morning, it's much more of a challenge for those living in the outback.
Take Les Pilton, who has been running a pub in the tiny town of Barrow Creek in the **rthern Territory for the past 28 years. The town has a population of 4, and Pilton's pub is the only stop in a 500 kilometre (310 mile) stretch of road.
SEE ALSO: Around the world with the iPhone 7 launch (http://mashable.com/2016/09/15/iphone7-launch-global/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Pilton lives a good 300 kilometres (186 miles) away from Alice Springs, in the dead centre of Australia. It'd be quite the effort to pick up a new iPhone, so mobile carrier Telstra brought one to him in person. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/16/iphone-7-outback-delivery/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Video (http://mashable.com/category/video/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Outback (http://mashable.com/category/outback/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Telstra (http://mashable.com/category/telstra/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Apple (http://mashable.com/category/apple/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Iphone 7 (http://mashable.com/category/iphone-7/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/nuFSpKz6mWQ