Comments on: Apple gets China Telecom, but China Mobile still out of its grasp

By: Pupperoni

Pupperoni — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:20:24 +0000

They’ll do the same thing they did to Verizon. Just give ‘em two to three years. So many people will leave China Mobile to get the iPhone they’ll be forced to cave to Apple’s wishes.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:26:53 +0000

Hmmm? I don’t get these numbers Erica, “Apple has sold 37 million units in just three months — to China Telecom’s 15 million customers.” That would mean each customer own’s more than one phone and 15 million sounds small for third largest mobile company in a county of 1.3 billion people.

By: Delax

Delax — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:33:08 +0000

China Mobile may have 600M+ subscribers but most them are dumbphone users. Unicom is almost on par with China Mobile when it comes to 3G subscribers. China Mobile wants a cut of App Store revenues which Apple will never give them.

By: sranzha

sranzha — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:11:04 +0000

Sorry but this is a Apple’s issue, its either their way or highway. That’s why they got the number 3 operators in China. Yes at 100million+ subscribers its still number 3 operators.

China Mobile with 550million+ subscribers is worlds largest network operator, China Unicom is second largest with close to 200million.

Verizon and ATT ? – small punny subscriber base – but as the its costs stupidly high in US for 1KB of data compared to China, they are big enough in terms of revenue.

By: Apple Turnover

Apple Turnover — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:57:40 +0000

Bloggers seem to think that Apple can instantly ramp up huge iPhone numbers in the blink of an eye. As it is, Foxconn can barely keep up with demand and yet the bloggers and media are always concerned about how Apple isn’t working hard enough to get China Mobile as a customer.

What’s wrong with Apple taking some small steps at a time? As it is, Apple had the problem of supplying enough iPhones for China and everyone was saying that Apple should have waited until there were more iPhones available. You think Apple is doing this because it wants to. There is a finite supply of iPhones and I don’t think that Apple is yet ready to take on China Mobile’s iPhone demand. Maybe you want those Foxconn workers really put under some pressure.