Ah…the iPhone…you want it? You’ll probably get it soon, as Apple closed several new agreements with carriers around the world to bring the iPhone to markets across Asia, and all the way to Australia. The new carriers include SingTel, Bharti Airtel, Globe and Optus, and the markets to benefit from the deal are Singapore, India, Philippines and Australia, SingTel unveiled in a statement today.

It’s been almost a year since Apple introduced the mighty multimedia “does-it-all” phone in the United States (unfortunately for the rest of the world, they had to wait longer to get their hands on an iPhone, or just unlock one if they didn’t want to wait). The iPhone became available in the United Kingdom, Germany and France as of November 2007, and reached Ireland and Austria as of March 2008.

This year, Apple went on from an exclusive deal with one carrier, to deals with new carriers, covering markets across Europe, Asia and even Australia. Just last week, Vodafone unveiled an agreement with Apple to sell iPhones in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey. Similar to the Vodafone deal, the financial terms of the agreement remain unknown, as well as the specific dates when the iPhone will become available on the above markets.

Apple has been highly criticized for its strategy to slowly introduce the iPhone on other markets around the world, especially considering the high demand at the time (the iPhone was considered to be “the best invention” of 2007), and everyone expected the iPhone to be introduced on a global scale before its “magic” wears off. Better late than never…