3 Million IPhones in China

Half of Chinese people have no mobile phones and Chinese companies are beginning to roll out third-generation services.

Shipments of smart phones will more than triple in China by 2013 from 11 million last year, said an analyst.

China Unicom, which trails China Mobile Ltd. in the wireless market, may use the iPhone to narrow that gap.

Unicom had 141.1 million wireless-phone users at the end of July, fewer than a third of China Mobile?s 497.7 million. Unicom plans to invest 100 billion yuan in mobile services during 2009 and 2010, with most of the money going into its 3G network.

Source : Konaxis

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