China Unicom bet on the iPhone

With a purchase of 5 million PCs, and the expectation of many millions more to market it points to, the iPhone will land in China by the hand of China Unicom, which has the first commercial 3G UMTS network in China, installed by Huawei.

With this sale Apple sells in a single operation and a new market, the same amount of equipment sold in an entire quarter, allowing it to double its share, if you hold the remaining sales to just over 3.5 % of the world.
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The iPhone will be sold in China for 300 and $ 600, the 8 GB and 16 GB respectively, relatively good prices worldwide, but poor compared with models of smartphones with Asian or black market is illegally imported iPhones scalable or bizarre imitation of Chinese iPhone with lid.

Remember that China Mobile, the operator with more number of customers worldwide, nearly 500 million, was negotiating for months trying to keep control of the application store, something that Apple would agree or at worst cases.

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