Leading Turkish mobile phone operator Turkcell has announced on Monday that it had signed an agreement with Apple to distribute the iPhone 3G in Turkey. It seems that Turkey may well be the first country which will receive a properly working iPhone 3G, as Apple readies a software patch to finally address the call disconnect bug that has plagued its gadget.

Turkcell is the leading wireless provider in Turkey with 35.4 million customers. The carrier did not announce a specific date or price for the Turkish launch, but claims the iPhone will be available to customers of both its prepaid plans and recurring subscription services, which is quite interesting.

As with all Apple products lately, the iPhone 3G is plagued with an annoying bug and, as with all Apple products lately, the company was very slow to fix the problem. The most delicate issue right now is the smartphone’s connection instability, which causes conversations to be interrupted sometimes. There are also reports that calls keep getting dropped because of faulty SIM cards.

At first the company refused to address the issue but a recent report announced that the company is currently developing a software update which should take care of the problem. Allegedly, Apple analyzed its options and found the update a lot cheaper and a lot less time consuming than the alternative of a general recall, but this means that the problem is also hardware-based and Apple's fix is just a way of sidestepping the issue.

Some consider that the problems are caused by a chip produced by German company Infineon Technologies AG, which was especially designed for the new 3G iPhone and is used as the baseband processor, handling the connections between the mobile phone and the cellular networks.

There is no official confirmation on any of these possible causes, as Apple always tries to hide its mistakes, as customary for the Cupertino company.