Several providers refuse to allow the iPhone 4S to sell, because they do not want to comply with the strict conditions of Apple. In the Netherlands, is the Apple smartphone yet, with all major providers to get.
The ceo of U.S. Cellular said in a meeting about quarterly figures on the rejection of the deals with Apple. The conditions were ‘unacceptable if you look at risks and profitability,” said ceo Mary Dillon, according to Fierce Wireless. Probably reminds them on the high margin for Apple, and the high number of iPhones that a provider should buy.
It is now a public secret that Apple in deals with providers requires a relatively high amount of money per sold iPhone and the provider required a relatively large number of iPhones to take off. The American carrier U.S. Cellular is the sixth largest provider of the United States and serves approximately six million customers.
Last week, it became clear that provider Telefonica in the Czech republic, the iPhone 4S will not sell because of ‘business conditions’, reported a local newspaper. The article also referred to the fact that Telefonica is not as much as iPhones wanted to decrease if Apple wanted to.
In the Netherlands, Apple has since november last year a deal with all the major carriers, according to rumors, these agreements are also not without a fight. Had T-Mobile an exclusive agreement in the Netherlands, that existed from the release of the iPhone 3G in 2008. Two years ago, argued the Danish firm Strand Consult, all agree that the sale of the iPhone providers more money than they earn. According to rumors are Apple’s terms and conditions have since become more flexible: this means that providers no longer separate iPhone plans to offer unlimited mobile internet is no longer a requirement for iPhone-abo’s.
Apple released the iPhone 4S last month. In the first few days were four million copies sold, that he’s much faster the store uitvloog than the iPhone 4 in the summer of last year. It is unclear how many copies Apple so far of his new smartphone has sold.