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iPhone heading to Japan?

It appears that DoCoMo and Softbank, two of Japan's largest cell phone carriers, are vying for an exclusive Apple iPhone contract, but Apple's intense revenue sharing ideals seem to be holding off any progress.

These complaints are nothing new however. In France, carrier Orange and Apple had public disagreements over revenue sharing and other carriers in the US and Europe have complained as well. In China, both China Mobile and China Unicom dropped negotiations due to revenue sharing disputes.



To date, over 1.5 million phones have been sold and Apple has said it hopes to sell 10 million by the end of 2008.

Sources have explained that Apple is seeking a 10 percent cut on all data revenues, a figure neither DoCoMo or Softbank will accept. Despite these issues, Apple is "still confident that it will be able to find a partner in the country eventually."

Source:
betanews

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 18 Dec 2007 17:03

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• 15 comments

• tripplite

  well considering japan already has phone with buit in credit cards am sure there going to build a smaller, quicker and cheaper counter part to
  the iphone, its just the Japaneses pwn in this area of business

  18.12.2007 17:16 #1

• Rudeboi

  Originally posted by tripplite: its just the Japaneses pwn in this area of businessThe Japanese pwn everything in the business world ahah

  18.12.2007 20:03 #2

• kingy1213

  k00l...when will us au$$ies be getting the power of the iphone?

  18.12.2007 23:55 #3

• vinny13

  WTF. What about Canada?!

  19.12.2007 16:13 #4

• alilia

  nice

  19.12.2007 16:15 #5

• kingy1213

  Canada!!!...Wot about A$$ies.

  19.12.2007 21:20 #6

• darkfire9

  aussies, just look on ebay. thats where i got mine from (in aus aswell) now i just gotta wait for it to be posted to me :(

  19.12.2007 23:11 #7

• kingy1213

  dont ya have to waight for it 2 be made for austrailan networks?
  ...well thats wat ive been told any-way?

  20.12.2007 04:05 #8

• Shegax

  Yes very nice....do you really think the iphone can compete with what they already have in JAPAN??? I don't really think so. And as for china? Common man my girlfriend got a i phone knock off from china and everybody who sees it loves it! she even got 10 other people she knows to buy the fake I phone. The point is what can Apple offer that local companies there cannot?

  20.12.2007 06:05 #9

• darkfire9

  Originally posted by kingy1213: dont ya have to waight for it 2 be made for austrailan networks?
  ...well thats wat ive been told any-way?
  nope the iphone has been hacked to allow it to be unlocked so u can use any gsm service provider all ova the world.

  20.12.2007 07:22 #10

• kingy1213

  @darkfire9
  
  thanx for that m8 i may now go looking and c wot can find on E-BAY.

  20.12.2007 18:47 #11

• darkfire9

  Originally posted by kingy1213: @darkfire9
  
  thanx for that m8 i may now go looking and c wot can find on E-BAY.
  just make sure u get one that is either pre-unlocked at firmware 1.1.2 or 1.1.1 or one that is locked on 1.1.1 as you cannot unlock all the iphones on ebay (specifically those that come with 1.1.2 from the factory).

  21.12.2007 00:32 #12

• kingy1213

  @darkfire9
  
  u r a wealth of info, thanx 4 the tip

  21.12.2007 03:36 #13

• darkfire9

  Originally posted by kingy1213: @darkfire9
  
  u r a wealth of info, thanx 4 the tip
  not a prob feel free to pm me with any more iphone questions :D

  21.12.2007 08:01 #14

• borhan9

  Same problem all around the world. Being exclusive like this is not going to get you anywhere. I wish apple would understand that fact. Revenue would be much more across the board if everyone was paying for their phone. Is not soo hard to figure out.

  27.12.2007 23:57 #15