iPhone and Mobile Telecom in the Pacific Rim
Posted in 3G, iPhone, iPhone in India, iPhone Negotiations on Mar 19th, 2010
March 19, 2010: Thanks to dirt cheap prepaid (no contract) calling plans, and low average revenue per user (ARPU), India’s carriers have virtually no appetite (no margin room) to subsidize handsets. Now add in the fact that India’s networks had overwhelmingly relied on 2G, and have been far behind schedule in deploying 3G. This equation [...]
Posted in Apple, China Mobile, China Unicom, iPhone, iPhone in China, iPhone Negotiations on Nov 27th, 2009
During my recent visit to Beijing, I had a chance to sit down with China’s Mobinode.TV (November 13, 2009) to discuss the iPhone launch in China. Since this interview aired, China Unicom has begun a major iPhone advertising campaign and launched a new online iPhone store in partnership with Taobao.com. Dan Butterfield > Interview with [...]
Posted in China Mobile, China Unicom, iPhone, iPhone in China, iPhone Negotiations on Apr 4th, 2009
Backstory on iPhone negotiations As has become more and more evident, the negotiations with China Mobile over a 3G iPhone have come to a standstill. There may still be some hope for a 2G iPhone deal (EDGE iPhone Nano) with China Mobile, but you might have better odds of winning at Three Card Monte than [...]
Posted in 3G, Apple, China, China Mobile, China Unicom, iPhone, iPhone in China, iPhone Negotiations, TD-SCDMA on Nov 19th, 2008
Update: 11/18/2008 The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s (MIIT) Telecommunications Administration Bureau and related departments issued a draft document for review suggesting that issuance of TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, and CDMA2000 3G licenses to domestic operators could be completed by years end. iPhonAsia comment: iPhonAsia is of the opinion (pure speculation) that Apple’s TBA carrier deals in [...]
Posted in 3G, AAPL, Apple, China, China Mobile, iPhone, iPhone in China, iPhone Negotiations, Smart Phones, TD-SCDMA, Video on Nov 13th, 2008
Apple has two very recent Beijing Job postings that suggest iPhone may soon be “official” in China. The most recent posting (November 13, 2008) is for an iPhone Quality Assurance Engineer in Beijing. Apple has launched iPhone in China’s special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau), but not yet in greater China. The recent Beijing [...]
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