This article is mainly conjecture, which goes like this:

"Nokia Windows Phone will first be offered in country X, Y and Z. Country X, Y and Z are not in the drop-down list for the N9. We don't think it would make sense for Nokia to sell two flagships in one country. Ergo: No N9 in country X, Y and Z."

The only information the author got he claims is from "two independent sources", of which one's credibility is the prediction of the Juli 21 release (but then, who didn't predict that?), so I guess the other source is even less credible. Then he also said that this source claims that as of today "Nokia itself isn't even sure about it yet".

Also, how would that be compatible with this?

http://www.journalism.co.uk/press-re...9/s66/a544877/

I highly doubt that Nokia is going to go around saying "sorry, you can't have it" to third party distributors or operators, though I wouldn't be surprised if they will focus their marketing on one or the other based on region.