“TAC now expected to sell 190,000 iPhones in the year after launch, up from its earlier forecast of 100,000, Chief Operating Officer Thana Thienachariya told Reuters on Monday,” Jittapong reports. “TAC’s smaller rival, True Move PCL, a unit of True Corp., was the first company to launch the 3G iPhone in the country in January 2009.”
“True has said it sold about 100,000 iPhones in 2009 and aimed to sell another 120,000 this year,” Jittapong reports. “The phones have also been sold through unofficial outlets.”
Jittapong reports, “Smartphone penetration in Thailand is expected to reach 12.9 percent of mobile subscribers by 2015 from about 10.5 percent at the end of 2009, Credit Suisse said in a note.”
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Good, yet one one place close by where Chinese can buy gray market iPhones with wifi.
Synthmeister…living in Thailand I can assure you that Chinese buy there iPhone in Hong Kong or in Shanghai on the grey market…
Or they buy an iPhone with…cough cough…Windows Mobile on it…
I wonder if Apple would see similar pent-up demand if they added a second carrier in the US–I bet they would!
(Though I’m happy with ATT.)