China Unicom Targets Strong 3G Growth
HONG KONG--China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd., which started offering Apple Inc.'s iPhone in China last week, aims to increase the number of its third-generation mobile users by more than 1 million a month, Chairman Chang Xiaobing said Tuesday.
The company launched 3G services in China Oct. 1 and had more than 1 million subscribers to the mobile technology standard at the end of that month, Mr. Chang said.
He said China Unicom has signed up more than 5,000 iPhone users in China since it launched the phone there Friday and it expects the Apple phone to boost its average revenue per user.
What really stands out is there was already 1 million + 3G phones in china just waiting for the technology to be supported. Only 5000 of these so far are officially distributed iPhones? With the price of unlocked grey market iPhones being so much less of what the officially distributed iPhones are how can Unicom hope to compete?
Unicom hopes to grow the 3G market by 1 million a month? This is pretty impressive of a goal given that it would most likely have to include both selling a 3G phone and plan. Rather than just the 3G plan to existing 3G phone customers.
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