China Telecom is the number one carrier in China and it is the first carrier to launch iPhone 4S CDMA version in the February of next year. But the handset will be officially launching on Hong Kong on November 6 2011.According to a supply chain source the China Telecom carrier is reportedly ready to introduce about the launch in February but the release will possibly be postponed until the middle of the next year.
Forbes magazine quoted a UBS analyst said that the introduction of China Telecom’s iPhone 4S will further spread out the Apple device market share in the country and it also allow the carrier to achieve the high-end mobile phone market. This may push its wireless business up to a range.
Still many customers in China preferring iPhone 4 rather than iPhone 4S due to the large scale discounts given to the older device and more over there are few improvements seen in the new version. Apple has declared it in their Chinese website that” Sold out “of iPhone 4 after dropping the price of hand set.
As the official Chinese launch of the iPhone 4S approaches, the price of parallel imports of handset has dropped to almost half of its original tag price of about US$2000.
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