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Tue, 26 Aug 2008 Apple targets 3.5m Russian iPhone sales

New plans call for over three million iPhone sales in next two years

Jonny Evans

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Apple's reported deal to offer the iPhone in Russia through as many as three mobile phone carriers there is likely to generate millions of handset sales, analysts claim.

Apple expects to sell 3.5 million iPhones in Russia in the next two years, according to Reuter's market sources "familiar with new deals being struck by Russian carriers."

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Eldar Murtazin, an analyst with Moscow-based Mobile Research Group told Reuters he believes one Russian carrir, MTS is aiming for one million iPhone sales in the next two years,

"Total sales by the Big Three carriers will amount to 3.5 million iPhones within the next two years," Murtazin told Reuters.

Russia is already flooded with up to 600,000 iPhones, bought in on the grey market.

These aggressive sales plans may bump into a barrier on price - the device is expected to cost $990 in Russia when it ships, though Russia is already flooded with up to 600,000 iPhones, bought in on the grey market - where prices in excess of $1,000 are common.

Meanwhile, in vaguely related news, Deutsche Telekom AG's mobile phone unit T-Mobile has sold 120,000 iPhone mobile phones so far, of which 75,000 were sold in Germany alone, company CEO Hamid Akhavan told weekly magazine Focus," Dow Jones Newswires reports.

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