Move the iphone as soon as next month with WiFi curve to achieve 3G

600 million users in hand, mobile via WiFi curve introduced into Apple 3G

The Associated Press said yesterday that China Mobile had reached an agreement with Apple to introduce the iphone this October. South reporters immediately called both sides and received a "no comment" reply. However, COO, a company with China Mobile, told reporters in the south that the news of the iphone was spread as it moved inside the office after Apple's Tim Cook's visit to China Mobile this June 22 and a closed-door meeting with senior executives. "If only based on the Td/lte (China Mobile will operate 4G network) or the new version of the IPhone5 to guess the cooperation timetable, even in 2012 years will not have results." The source said that, although there is no official disclosure, but within the company's so-called "mobile version of the iphone," the contours began to become clearer, including the network first to ensure that backward edg E, the data business more focus on W IFI and so on. As for the rollout time, it is likely to be earlier than the Associated Press in October.

Mobile frequency-handed olive branch

"Apple has reached an agreement with China Mobile to introduce the iphone smartphone into the country as early as October this year," the company said. "The Associated Press described the collaboration in the context ——— according to the number of users, China Mobile is the world's largest mobile communications company, the total number of users more than 600 million people.

Yesterday, the South reporters on this matter to call Apple China, the other side to maintain a consistent attitude of silence. China Mobile is reluctant to comment on the timetable, saying only that it will provide better services to the IP hone users currently using China Mobile's network. Earlier in the media interview, China Mobile's chairman, Mr Wang, revealed that by the end of May, the Chinese mobile iphone had reached 5.6 million per cent of Internet users. Recently, China Mobile also through the relevant channels released the latest data ——— as of the end of June, China Mobile iphone users in the network has increased to 6.42 million. That is to say, a single month user increment exceeds 800,000.

There are not a few employees using Apple's iphone inside China Mobile. Similarly, Apple's Chinese company has many employees using China Mobile's number. That means that more than 6 million of iphone users, including them, do not mind their mobile phones running 2.75G edge networks.

China Mobile's love of Apple's iphone has been palpable, along with a vague ambiguity about the timetable for co-operation. As early as last year, China Mobile's Guangdong company set up an iphone zone on its official web site to guide iphone users on how to achieve wireless Internet access, bundle 139 mailboxes, open flying letters and MMS, import correspondence records, etc. After the listing of IPhone4, mobile city companies have launched a special "cut card service." South reporters from Guangdong Mobile learned that the current IPhone4 users want to use China Mobile network has no need to "cut cards", because mobile business Hall will be the direct replacement of the IPhone4 card.

July 28, China Mobile and the iphone users have thrown a more direct "olive branch" ——— China Mobile Beijing announced through the media, is about to launch a package containing iPhone4. Global users in Gome, di-letter, music and other social channels to buy the corresponding model of the mobile phone, you can purchase invoices to the designated business hall for the package, received a certain amount of telephone return. In addition to IPhone4, the "package" for Nokia E 7, N 8 and Motorola M E 860. It is noteworthy that these models are operated by China Unicom WCDMA model, but can be backward-compatible with the mobile Ed G e Network.

No LTE? No iPhone5?

"With the advent of iPhone5 in China's massive mobile phone market, Apple's partnership with China Mobile will bring more new users to the iphone," he said. "A week ago, a prominent US financial newspaper had published" China Mobile will introduce the iphone "news. But by contrast, the AP news yesterday looks closer to reality. The Associated Press said that China Mobile, the fastest introduced in October this year, is actually iPhone4 mobile phone.

The reality is that Apple has not announced the next iphone, and when the IPhone5 will be launched. If the current industry is speculating that September-October will be its final launch time, then its real landing in the Chinese market at least until the end of this year.

As for the LTE iphone, Tim Cook made it clear in April this year that "the first generation of long-term Evolution technology (LTE) chipset requires a lot of concessions from the phone design, and Apple is unwilling to accept some concessions." "That means LTE is at least out of the next iphone."

These factors have greatly increased the likelihood that mobile will first introduce existing iphone products. Yesterday, a part of the company responsible for the promotion of China Mobile, said reporters to the south, Mobile has been developing some for the iphone user's promotion. "Most are similar to the Beijing mobile launch of the Smart Machine W IFI package, that users need to buy their own iphones and mobile business Hall." However, the person added, the recent rumors that mobile local companies are starting to develop a bundle of iphone sales promotion programs.

Another Guangdong local Apple mobile phone dealers to the south have said that for Apple, and mobile cooperation is the easiest way to open the channel directly, and then together to develop a suitable marketing plan, the speed of September can be achieved. In his view, Beijing Mobile's smartphone WiFi package is a small range of "training" before selling mobile iphone.

Yang Qun, chief analyst for mobile phone consultancy and policy, said Apple's sales in China rose 6 times-fold year-on-year in the two quarter, with a large chunk of the iphone's contribution. "In the face of Unicom, Apple still has the upper hand. In order to maintain the rapid growth of the Chinese market, to the other two operators open sales is the trend. He said that mobile testify first sold from IPhone4, Apple in theory will not refuse, after all, to open up user incremental guarantee performance growth, China Mobile hands of 600 million users is the key.

Gsm+wifi, moving curve realization 3G

From June 22 Tim Cook visited China Mobile group headquarters, to June 24 to become Sina Weibo real name authentication users, Beijing Mobile Haidian District director Liu Yang published micro-blog said "mobile September introduced IPhone5" (soon deleted), and then to foreign shouting "mobile 600 million signed users, I came!" "The distance between China Mobile and the iphone seems to be just a layer of window paper.

The advantage of China Mobile's operating iphone, compared to Unicom, is that it has a broad customer base and is the best choice for Apple's "impulse". The disadvantage is that, for a long time, mobile phones can only use the G-SM network and cannot use 3G.

However, because of WiFi, the problem of 3G missing has been solved half ——— can provide high-speed wireless Internet access, just can not ensure the convenience of "anytime".

According to statistics, three of telecom operators, China Mobile WiFi input regardless of the hot number or coverage area, are better than the other two. In Guangdong, the fastest-growing region, Guangdong Mobile has built a wireless urban agglomeration platform in 21 cities in the province, paved Wi-Fi hotspot 15,000, and adopted a 2g+td+wlan hybrid network. In addition, the global access to the eight major package users launched the free W IFI Internet service.

In fact, with China's iphone user size of more than 10 million, besides China Mobile, China Telecom also can't restrain Apple's "desire". Almost at the same time that China Mobile and Apple finalized cooperation, there is news that China Telecom also reached a preliminary agreement with Apple, will introduce CDMA version iPhone4.

As for China Unicom, Yang Qun believes it will remain ahead of the iphone's introduction to high-end products. "Because of the factors that operate WCDMA networks, the chances of a new generation of iphones being sold by China Unicom are still the biggest in the country." However, Yang Qun also said that with the 16G IPhone 4 as an example, Unicom to provide users with the proportion of the cost of the price of the fuselage up to 86%, is undoubtedly a heavy burden. "To compete head-on with two other operators to develop iphone users as much as possible, or to use the 3G network advantage to develop ARPU values, the higher iphone users will be the choice that Unicom faces." ”

3G user ratio of three major carriers

Source: Ministry of the, June 2011

Telecom 27%

Move 43%

Unicom 30%

(Responsible editor: admin)