C114 NEWS(Oct.13) ----"We launched the first iPhone 4 on September 25 and did not expected that 100 thousand mobile phones had been sold out in three days." Vice president of China Unicom , Li gang expressed yesterday on Telecommunications Exhibition 2010, now China Unicom has 200 thousand online pre-orders, and many other users is still not have one, China Unicom currently worked together with Apple to supply more iPhone4 to meet market demand.
At the same time the good news issued, China Mobile, which keep touch with Apple about the introduction of iPhone 4 , although has no results before, now is publicly working hard on iPhone 4 .
Yesterday, china Mobile of shanghai sent a message to SM customers, said now a Micro SIM card which made for iPhone 4 and iPad has been introduced , from now to October 18, customers can replace a card for free, and receive a 60-yuan Mobile Internet recharge cards.
Then,"First Financial Daily" confirmed that Shanghai Mobile declared a free replacement of Micro SIM card for iPhone 4 users from Sep.28 to Oct.18. And now 5000 cards have been replaced. People who replaced the card before Oct. 5 gained not only a 60-yuan Mobile Internet recharge cards but also a 200-yuan Expo ticket for the specified date. In addition, Shenzhen Mobile also provided a free service to users in all business hall, that service is to help users to cut SIM cards so that the card can be used in iPhone 4.
Compared with China Telecom's highly expectation of CDMA version of iPhone, China Mobile, broke China Unicom's single sold of iPhone products , which seemed more clever. For Apple "fans", now you can choose either China Unicom or China Mobile in mainland. Signal strength and preferential replacement will help China Mobile to retain some users who don't want to change numbers,or even grab a huge number of Unicom's iPhone 4 and iPad users.
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