Some analysts expect Chinese carriers to engage into an iPhone subsidy war in the future, now that the iPhone is officially available from China Mobile, the largest carrier in the region and in the world. “I don’t see a price war coming where Apple is engaged in the war, but I do think you’re going to see a subsidy war coming,” RedTech Advisors managing director Michael Clendenin told Reuters . “China Mobile, if they’re not making their targets on sales for these phones, they’re going to increase the subsidies… It’s like airlines: the other guys will fall like dominoes, so China Unicom will do it and China Telecom will do it.
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iPhone subsidy war looming over China