There's more one way to read that, and I don't know quite what the original Swedish says, but in my English "expected to be" does not mean the same as "will be". It means "we expect, but we don't have enough information to make a commitment yet".

Ergo, that is not a promise to release in December.

Still, with the 3 SIM fix available internally they can't be doing themselves many favours in the markets where people are contractually bound to their 3 contracts, or in my case, where I want to use them only because it gets me free calls to my most significant other people.