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Telecommunications iPhone's assault on Asia - coming soon | iPhone's assault on Asia - coming soon |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 14 November 2007 | |
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Associated Press reports that Apple and China Mobile are talking about introducing the iPhone into China, but have not yet reached an agreement. China Mobile is the largest mobile operator in China with over 300 million subscribers. AP also quoted sources at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, saying Apple was also in talks with other operators throughout the region. Meanwhile the CEO of Telstra, Sol Trujillo, told Bloomberg that he expected the iPhone to go on sale in Australia next year and that Telstra would be interested in an exclusive partnership. Telstra has the largest customer base of 2G subscribers and by far the largest coverage area of any network with its 850GHz 3G network. However the iPhone is at present only a 2G device. This would suit China which has held back on moving to 3G because it wanted to use its own TD-SCDMA technology, which is not just starting to be rolled out. Many other Asian countries are also only at the start of 3G adoption. In Australia one of Telstra's largest cellphone retailers, Fone Zone recently bought the country's largest network of Apple retailers, Next Byte, and followed that up with the purchase of Apple service, support and rental company Frequency Communications.{moscomment}
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