iPhone may not hit Chinese shelves anytime soon
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 14, 2007 at 1:18pm
Although China Mobile, China’s largest cell phone carrier, is purportedly interested in working with Apple to bring the iPhone to China, it may not happen soon. It’s unlikely to hit Chinese shelves soon because of technical and fee issues, according to Reuters.
The communications device might be incompatible with the Chinese telecoms market because of their “locked” SIM cards—meaning the device would not be able to piggyback on another operator’s network, the article adds.
“You have to realize Chinese SIM cards are not locked up, as the iPhones’ are,” a senior telecoms executive told Reuters on the condition of anonymity. “Secondly, our business model does not entail sharing revenue with terminal producers—we don’t share revenue. That’s a Chinese rule. All it is right now, on the iPhone and Apple, is that the firm welcomes their approach.”
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
