“China Unicom is the front runner in the ‘battle’ between China’s two largest cellphone carriers to win exclusive rights to sell Apple’s iPhone in China, but giant China Mobile is ‘not out yet,'” Phillip Elmer-Dewitt reports for Fortune.
“So says Kaufman Bros.’ Shaw Wu in a note to clients issued Monday,” Elmer-Dewitt reports. “‘We checked in with our industry and supply chain sources,’ he writes, ‘and as expected, details are hard to come by as Apple keeps a tight lid on its future plans, but we were able to gather some data points that Apple followers may find useful.'”
• China Unicom is hungrier
• Wireless protocols are key
• Apple has several options
• China already has iPhones
• China’s business model is different
Elmer-Dewitt reports, “China’s 687 million mobile subscribers represent the biggest prize on the planet for cell phone makers — the last missing piece in Steve Jobs’ master plan to blanket the earth with iPhones.”
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