Chine Unicom scored quite a victory over the iPhone deal with Apple. With the heavy weight like China Mobile in picture which a year back had 634 million subscribers alone, China Unicom sure has a sizzler with the iPhone 3GS on sale exclusively in China at the moment. Apparently a dispute over the App Store [...]
Apple’s differences with China Mobile over the launch of iPhone in China is already known to us. This has led to the deal between Apple and China Unicom to materialize. However it seems that Apple doesn’t want to leave out the 500 million+ China Mobile subscribers from the iPhone radar. Thus to get the iPhone [...]
by Ankur on April 27, 2009
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After numerous reports of iPhone striking a deal in China, either with China mobile or China Unicom, it seems that iPhone fans in China can expect the iPhone to hit the mainland officially only in 2010 (as hinted in Q2 results by Apple). Apple’s dominating policies and demand for a high share in [...]
While Apple failed to reach an agreement with the biggest mobile player in country China Mobile, smaller players would certainly like to add the Apple gizmo to their inventory. Apparently the iPhone 3G and Android G1 is spotted on China Unicom’s website. Suggesting that it might bring these devices to China soon. If sucessful China [...]
by Ankur on February 10, 2009
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We have been hearing since long about the launch of iPhone 3G in China. But reports suggest that talks between Apple and China Mobile has failed. China Mobile has a 72 percent share of the market i.e. 634 million subscribers as of the end of November.
As it seems, China Mobile had objections on Apple directly [...]