China Unicom to Double Windows Mobiles Orders by 8% | Less iPhone to 4%

China Unicom’s technology division revealed that China Unicom is buying twice as many Windows Mobile handsets for 2010 that iPhones.
The announcement was made at the 2010 Communications Industry Technology Annual Conference currently underway in Beijing, where he said 8% of their 3G handset procurements will be Windows Mobile handsets, while 4% will be iPhones.
China Unicom is the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in China, where the handset has been rumoured to be struggling to hit sales targets.

Zhang said at the conference that the number of China Unicom 3G subscribers has exceeded 2 mln since the official commercial launch on October 1. As of the end of November, WCDMA networks had been deployed in 300 Chinese cities, and China Unicom expects coverage to reach 350 cities by the end of this year.

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