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China unicom & iPhone

Apple co-operation with China Unicom finally get to the bottom of this good news for China Unicom’s stock rose a lot the past few days. However, China Unicom in this matter was relatively low key, in addition to Hong Kong announced, the provincial land office did not do large-scale publicity and promotion. From a personal perspective, iphone pros and cons of co-operation with China Unicom are the following:

1, can improve Unicom’s brand image: two co-effective means of promoting the brand interaction, for improving the interchange at the high-end market, brand image help.

2、 to help fight the high-end customers Unicom: Unicom’s GSM users after the split ARPU value of 50 yuan, less than the mobile and telecom users ARPU. If the iphone launch of a competitive package, you can attract a lot of mobile and high-end users to switch to Telecom’s network.

3, to help China Unicom in the 3G one step ahead of the competition: TD terminals and CDMA network coverage is now the major problem, TD-user developed more than a year to the present size has just crossed the one million users; and co-operation with China Unicom with the iphone in the fourth quarter of 3G Telephone Number of China Unicom, China Unicom’s 3G users to have a quick breakthrough.

4, Iphone too late the timing of China: the market has emerged in many categories iphone products, such as Gphone, LG, domestic as well as the M8 to be released next Monday to move Ophone and so on, even the iphone cell phone more than the parallel imports 1 million. Iphone user’s expectations have been reduced.

5, Iphone’s wifi feature is disabled: This is a flawed policy, the user’s expectations for iphone is that UI, UE, and Internet experience, while the wifi feature is disabled as well as domestic 3G bandwidth is not high it will significantly affect users iphone experience. If the iphone could have wifi capabilities, you can launch the same as Telecom’s WCDMA + WIFI bundled packages, where grab from the telecommunications and mobile high-end users.

Iphone details of the package is currently no clear argument, but is said to be 2999 yuan Hua Fei stored bare-metal +3000 + +2 a minimum monthly consumption of 186 yuan in net protocol. This package should be said that appeal to users is not enough, especially for those who are already using mobile numbers for many years in the high-end users, even more so. From a personal perspective, iphone help Unicom 3G although the first step, but the prospects are still uncertain. Chinese users are price sensitive, real attractive package is the key.

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It should hardly be a surprise that the iPhone is coming to China. Apple Inc.’s iconic mobile device is manufactured here, and an estimated two million have already been sold on the grey market in the mainland. But a deal announced on Aug. 28 by China Unicom, the country’s second-largest mobile service provider, will make the phone available to hundreds of millions of mainland consumers, opening a huge new market to Apple. China now has nearly 700 million mobile phones in use, almost as much as the next two largest mobile nations — India and the U.S. — combined. “Apple needs a good international success story to keep their momentum going, and China is a great candidate for that,” says Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA, a Beijing-based telecommunications consultancy.

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