China Unicom’s iPhone sale reaches 100,000 mark

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mired by sluggish start after its launch on October 30, the sale of Apple Inc. iPhones seems to have picked up in China with 100,000 set already been sold by China Unicom.

However, China is still very far as compared to the USA where Apple sold 270,000 iPhones in the first 30 hours after it first went on sale there in 2007, while China Unicom had sold only 5,000 iPhones till the fourth day of its launch.

High price of these iPhones is a major factor that is holding back its sale in China. $730 to $1,020 has been charged by Apple and Unicom and even Wi-Fi Internet function is disabled on Unicom’s iPhones to comply with Chinese government rules.

Last month, China Unicom had said it aimed to increase the number of its third-generation mobile users by more than 1 million a month. At the end of October, it had just over 1 million 3G users.