/ / CyberSecurity.ru / / – Apple today announced that it still managed to reach an agreement on the sale of smartphones iPhone users the world’s largest mobile operator China Mobile, serving more than 760 million mobile subscribers. For China Mobile, Apple releases a special version of iPhone, works in standard TD-SCDMA (3G) and TD-LTE (4G) and created specifically for the Chinese consumer.
According to the reached agreements between companies, selling the iPhone on the network China Mobile will start on January 17, 2014. It is known that in recent years the world’s largest Sotovik and Apple could not reach agreement on the sale, as China Mobile did not have a traditional draconian conditions for Apple in smartphone sales. Now understanding reached between the parties, but the specific financial terms were not disclosed.
In Apple repeatedly said that they want to increase sales in China, as this market today is the largest and for Apple it is very important. It is obvious that the deal with China Mobile will allow Apple to increase its market share of the company in the PRC. “China – is a very important market for us. Our partnership with China mobile gives us the opportunity to start selling the iPhone in the world’s largest cellular network, “- said Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Earlier this year, Cook said that the Chinese market for Apple may soon overtake on Sales American market, while the iPhone here – the main driving force of finance and sales. According to statistics, China now in cellular communication used by about 1.2 billion people. Until now, there was selling iPhone second largest local operator China Unicom, but the bulk of the Chinese prefer other, cheaper smartphones. Until now, the best selling brands in the Chinese market were Samsung, Lenovo and local Coolpad.
Note that Apple has not yet announced the price at which China Mobile will sell the iPhone 5S and 5C.
However, analysts believe that the parties’ agreement has huge potential. According to experts, using the China Mobile, Apple may sell in 2014 about 25 million iPhone, while in the first 9 months of 2013 Apple Worldwide realizovaala 102,400,000 iPhone.
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