CDMA-based iPhone to Hit Chinese Market

Deutsche Bank  lately issued a report, saying that China Telecom Corporation Ltd.  will launch iPhone that is compatible with the CDMA technology, whose chips will be supplied by Qualcomm Inc. and production will be taken over by Foxconn Technology Group.

Analysts believe that the promotion of CDMA-based iPhone in China is one important step of the global expansion of Apple Inc. Although the country currently only accounts for less than 10% of the gross revenues of the company from iPhone around the world, it has great potential for future growth.

Apple is believed to change its strategy to have exclusive cooperation with one certain telecommunications carrier in one country. For example, in China, the company has set up two regular chain stores in Beijing and Shanghai, no more solely depending on the sales network of China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. alone.

Since Apple tenders the olive branch to China Mobile Ltd. and China Telecom, the latter certainly welcome the good intention. The Shanghai branch of China Mobile begins to exchange Micro SIM cards for users of iPhone 4 and iPad from now on till October 18 and present them with top-up cards for their mobile phones.