Lack of WiFi Puts Damper on iPhone’s China Debut

October 30, 2009 · Print This Article


Apple’s iPhone is making its long-awaited formal debut in the world’s most populous mobile phone market, without a key feature and at higher prices than widely available black market models. Apple’s local service provider, China Unicom, hopes the iPhone will give

it an edge against giant rival China Mobile, the world’s biggest phone company by subscribers. Unicom was to start selling iPhones equipped for third-generation service Friday night at 2,000 stores in areas as far-flung as Tibet.

[Source] Joe McDonald

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