China Mobile to Subsidize iPhone

it will be interesting to see how at&t and china mobile mirror off each other

Wow. It's rare for people to buy subsidized phones... great this will make people in China cheap and into free/discounted phones!

it will be interesting to see how at&t and china mobile mirror off each other

The only difference will be if you go over your usage allotment, you're sent to a work camp and then a reeducation center.

The iPhone becomes immeasurably less cool when your government bans access to the interwebs.

This is HUGE news for Apple! With the original iPhone, it was sold only in the U.S. Now Apple is selling the iPhone3G GLOBALLY! Apple has gone GLOBAL! This is HUGE for the investors and the company and the company's success! "Apple ... is now selling the iPhone in 43 countries." ..and now ... TO CHINA! The millions of Chinese that are joining the ranks of the affluent class every day will be standing in lines to buy "designed in California" iPhones! :) :) :)

Here is a better article http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/29/technology/Apple-China.fortune/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
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All right, well, hope the negotiations proceed apace. Seems like we've been hearing China rumors forever without anything concrete materializing.

All right, well, hope the negotiations proceed apace. Seems like we've been hearing China rumors forever without anything concrete materializing.

ha, that is so true. There were so many rumors about this topic already, but nothing concrete. Hopefully they get it soon!

This is HUGE news for Apple! With the original iPhone, it was sold only in the U.S. Now Apple is selling the iPhone3G GLOBALLY! Apple has gone GLOBAL! This is HUGE for the investors and the company and the company's success!

:confused: Where have you been the past month or so?

A new report claims that the ongoing negotiations between Apple and China Mobile are making some headway. According to an "insider", China Mobile will be relying on handset subsidies to bring the iPhone to China.

This new plan apparently takes the place of revenue sharing plans that had been a sticking point of negotiations in the past.

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there may or may not be negotiations between china mobile and apple regarding iphone, but this particular rumor is plain stupid; revenue sharing plans haven't been sticking point for apple for ages, none of the operators offering iphone 3g is sharing revenue.

second, there's no iphone 3g compatible 3g network in china to speak of and it will take a good while before there is. they're going to roll out their national 3g version (td-cdma), and that's not compatible with iphone. the 3g variant iphone requires will only be launched after td-cdma network is up and running. it's quite safe to not expect wcdma networks to launch in at least a year, and even after that it will take a good while before they are commonly available.

and third, chinese are extremely technology conscious, especially those who can afford iphone + monthly plan. for them, even if iphone would be launched next week in china, it'd lack the novelty factor.

The only difference will be if you go over your usage allotment, you're sent to a work camp and then a reeducation center.

Was that really neccessary? Or remotely true?

Anyways, I wonder if the iPhones will be unlocked. All 3 phones I've purchased in China have been unlocked?