Sunday, July 06, 2008

iPhone:Still no deal with China mobile

7/6/2008, On june 26, Mr. Wang, jianzhou, CEO of China Mobile once said the biggest blockade for China mobile to introduce iPhone service had been removed. But according to local media, there is still no a timetable for iPhone service in China. Apple Inc. once demanded 20%-30% revenue from China Mobile on this iPhone service. But China Mobile won't accept such kind of demand. For Apple, they have used this kind of revenue sharing method in many countries, they also won't like to surrender to China Mobile easily. It was said Apple had agreed to give up the revenue on voice service, but they still demand 20%-30% revenue from iPhone's data service in China Mobile. The two sides still cann't make a deal on this.Although there is no formal iPhone service in China, but there already are many iPhone users in China. They got the smuggled iPhone and then decoded it. Somebody said there were at least 400K iPhone's in China Mobile's network. At the sametime, some similar products appear in the market, If iPhone cann't go to China's market quickly, maybe it will lose this market.

1 comment:

chinasoftwaredevelopment said...

I think China is a great competitor on this matter. It's true, they may lose they deal if they don't hurry, but China must agree to their proposal, and considering its great potential in software development, they may not accept afterall.