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Title: iPhone not selling well in Japan, now available for free ! Post by: mobaholic on February 27, 2009, 12:12:02 PM There are no official statistics available as how well the iPhone sells after Apple started offering it in the Japanese market in July last year (http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/10/meet-hiroyuki-the-guy-who-will-get-asias-first-3g-iphone/). Now Softbank Mobile, one of Asia’s biggest tech companies and the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in Japan, thinks sales need a boost and decided to give away the hardware basically for free (http://www.softbankmobile.co.jp/ja/news/press/2009/20090225_05/index.html) [JP]. Following a price cut in August last year, SoftBank will launch a special iPhone campaign on Friday that runs through the end of May. New subscribers signing up for a two-year contract will be able to get a 8GB iPhone for free (the old price in Japan was $235). The The 16GB model will be discounted to $118 from $350. In addition, SoftBank Mobile’s data plan is being discounted from $62 to $45.60 per month for existing and new subscribers. See:- this (http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/26/iphone-not-selling-well-in-japan-now-available-for-free/). |