Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
That would make it amongst the biggest of iPhone
markets when you venture outside of the United States. You can even buy
an iPhone 3G, if you don't mind paying around USD $1000 for a gray
import.
What Russians do not have, for now, is official access to the iPhone 3G. That is due to change before the year is out.
Hot on the heels of announcements by the other big mobile network
operators over there that deals had been inked with Apple, MegaFon has
now confirmed it too will start selling the Jesus Phone before the end
of the year.
It is thought that sales will start in October, and one Russian
newspaper has apparently reported
that the agreements Apple now has in place with the top three Russian
mobile providers requires them to sell millions of handsets for the
next three years.
The Vedomosti newspaper says that MTS must sell one million every year
for three years, and Vimplecom and MegaFon one and a half million every
year for two years.
China Mobile, meanwhile, is reported
to be close to inking an agreement with Apple that would see the iPhone
3G launching in the largest mobile phone market in the world: China.
The 21 Century Business Herald in China has claimed that talks will
conclude soon, with Apple apparently being persuaded to drop its
demands for the usual revenue-sharing model.
Perhaps the lure of those 600 million mobile phone users proved too much, even for Steve Jobs to resist...
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