Apple will sell 40 million iPhone in China next year


Judge Katie Huberty (Katy Huberty) from investment bank Morgan Stanley believes that next year, Apple will sell 40 million in China the iPhone. True, it can only hope that if she can negotiate with several operators operating in the country, whereas now the iPhone is sold only in China Unicom. The analyst believes that in 2013 Apple will also cooperate with China Mobile and China Telecom, and that will bring the sales to such values.

At the moment, China Mobile is the largest operator in China, it provides services in the networks of TD-LTE. The number of its subscribers, who can pay for more than 100 yuan ($ 16) per month reaches 120 million. By comparison, China Unicom and China Telecom is only about 15 million such subscribers (each), and this is the potential consumers iPhone. Therefore, it is a contract with China Mobile will provide bystryyrost iPhone sales in China. However, and China Telecom will be able to add to these indicators 2-4 million. According to the expert Morgan Stanley, issue a new generation of iPhone will be held in the third quarter of this year, and in China at China Mobile it will be released at the end of it - early next year.