Exclusive sales contract of "iPhone" is finished all over the world, opportunities are coming to cell phone companies around the world

To Apple's iPhone, which previously only supported the W-CDMA method,CDMA 2000-compatible model appeared, it was decided to be released at Verizon, which is the No. 1 market shareIt seems that it was a very big impact event also in the sense that the monopoly of AT & T, the 2nd largest share that was the only mobile phone company that sold iPhone in the US, collapsed.

Exclusive sales in the form of "iPhone 1 Country 1 Carrier" are still being carried out in many countries, but Apple has revealed that the iPhone exclusive sale contract has ended worldwide. In other words, it seems that this means that opportunities have arrived at mobile phone companies around the world that have not sold iPhones.

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According to the company's fourth quarter 2010 (October - December 2010) financial presentation by Apple on January 18, local time, the company announced in 16 months that 16.24 million iPhones and 4.13 million Mac , Sold 7.33 million iPads, and sold 19.45 million iPods, recorded record sales, recorded sales of approximately $ 26.74 billion (about 2.2 trillion yen), the highest ever sales , And operating profit has reached about 6 billion dollars (about 493.7 billion yen).

Financial results presentation was to leave for sick medical treatmentTim Cook, COO (Chief Operating Officer) who decided to leave Apple's management on behalf of Steve JobsIn charge of Mr. Cook, Mr. Cook said that it plans to do everything possible so that as many users as possible get the iPhone, about the iPhone business in the future.

Mr. Cook said that the current situation is "not enough" and that the market share of the iPhone can still be expanded and when the supply will catch up with the huge iPhone demand from Verizon users anticipated by the CDMA 2000 version iPhone 4 release I can not predict it.

Also, although the iPhone is currently being sold worldwide, Mr. Cook said, "We will continue to search for new ways to expand our share in the future, always evaluating the situation in each country," he said. Mentioned that the growth rate and share of the iPhone have changed significantly in countries that are exclusively selling or are being sold by more than one mobile phone company.

And as for the case that the exclusive sales of AT & T will collapse due to the release of CDMA2000 compliant iPhone from Verizon, exclusive sales contract of iPhone has not been done in any country in the world already, I have revealed that it was in the United States that I remained.

The fact that the iPhone's exclusive sale contract has been completed worldwide means that, for example, in Japan even negotiations with Apple and requirements such as the frequency of radio waves provided will be available, telecommunications companies such as NTT DoCoMo and KDDI can sell iPhones To be like that.

NTT DoCoMo (about 5721 million contracts) and KDDI (about 3256 contracts) that overwhelmingly exceed SOFTBANK MOBILE (24.4 million contracts as of the end of December 2010) meaning "to continue to expand the share of iPhone as much as possible" It seems that the number of users of 10,000 contracts is not negligible at all, what kind of expansion will it be in the future?