“Various sites this week relayed a report from Chinese-language ccidcom.com, which cited a company filing that allegedly revealed China Mobile has entered an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone 4 at the end of October,” AppleInsider reports.
“China Mobile is the largest mobile carrier in the world with 611 million wireless subscribers, controlling 68 percent of the total wireless market in China,” AppleInsider reports. “Analyst Mike Abramsky with RBC Capital Markets said an iPhone launch with China Mobile could equate to an additional 2 million to 3 million units sold at the end of 2012, or between 8 percent and 12 percent of total iPhone shipments.”
AppleInsider reports, “Currently, the iPhone is only available on China Unicom’s network, where it went on sale in 2009.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
Perhaps they mean the iPhone 4S. Would Apple have a phone sold only to developing markets? Would they sell there own “knock-off?
“their own” I can’t believe I did that!
Uh, NO, if true this will result in a lot more than just 2-3 million additional iPhones in calendar Q4. Try at LEAST 5 million incremental gain in calendar Q4. (Given the recent intentional/marketing leaks by Apple about a lower-end iPhone coming up, I’m including that.)
Hey Janice,
What do you think this will do to AAPL bottom line?
“ink”? Not the fancy new add-signature-to-PDF-file functionality of MacOS Lion?
How quaint.