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What you need to know: This weblog captures key data points about the global telecoms industry. I use it as an electronic notebook to support my work for Pringle Media.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Russians Find iPhone Pricey

Russian mobile operators have only sold "a few hundred thousand" 3G iPhones because of the 400 US dollar price tag and the lack of consumer credit, Mikhail Shamolin, CEO of the MTS Group, told the Wall Street Journal. He estimated that users have also smuggled about 500,000 iPhones into Russia that were purchased overseas at cheaper rates.

Mikhail Shamolin also told the Journal that he isn't interested in Google's Android operating system, as he sees the Internet company as a potential competitor. source: Total Telecom/Wall Street Journal

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