May 25, 2012 11:22 pm
May 26 news, “Forbes” magazine online edition published an article today said that China Mobile is negotiating cooperative to sell Apple iPhone. The industry believes that if China Mobile began operations in October this year, next-generation iPhone, then the 2013 iPhone sales will reach 25 million.
China Mobile said in the shareholders’ meeting on May 16, the company is the operator iPhone talks with Apple. However, China Mobile refused to disclose when the two sides to reach an agreement. This is consistent with Apple’s past practice, refused to disclose the specific launch date of the next generation of the iPhone.
Apple has reached an agreement of cooperation to sell the iPhone with China Unicom and China Telecom. China Mobile ranked first with the number of mobile users will help Apple to maintain high growth rates in the Chinese market. China Mobile currently has over 665 million mobile users, far more than the Verizon Wireless and AT & T and other U.S. carriers.
Prior to this, the TD-SCDMA technology is a major obstacle to hinder the iPhone to enter the Chinese mobile network. The market most of the smart phones are not compatible with this technology, including the iPhone. If you want to cooperate with China Mobile, Apple launched a special version of the iPhone for this network.
However, Qualcomm to launch the baseband chip to support a variety of mobile technology, Apple and China Mobile, the cooperation possible. Qualcomm’s products not only support the TD-SCDMA technology, but also support China Mobile TD-LTE network. So far, China Mobile by way of building a WiFi network on a large scale to compensate for the lack of 3G networks.
Despite the large number of iPhone users in China Mobile’s network, but industry insiders speculated that Apple’s market share in China, the data did not consider this part of the user. If this part of the user into account, then Apple’s market share will have increased dramatically.
Till to April 2011, China Mobile has 10 million iPhone users. In the ensuing four months, the new iPhone users reached 500 million. This means that each month, iPhone users have reached 1.25 million. Four months prior to October, China Mobile’s new iPhone users for the same level. This indicates that the rate of iPhone users to join mobile networks in China remained stable.
China Mobile iPhone right to operate the new iPhone is released in October of this year, sold 1.5 million a month subsidized iPhone. The last quarter of 2012, China Mobile will be able to multi-sold 5 million iPhones. 2013 iPhone sales likely to grow further to $ 25 million. China Mobile’s iPhone sales reach the level of AT & T, so that by 2018, China Mobile will be able to sell nearly 200 million iPhone.