Strong pre-sales for iPhone 12 in Taiwan
Max Wang, Taipei; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES
Pre-sales for Apple’s simply launched iPhone 12 lineup have gotten off to begin within the Taiwan market with telecom operators receiving good-looking pre-orders, based on market sources.
Telecom operators, together with Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) and Taiwan Mobile, all started taking pre-orders on October 14, with CHT saying it offered out its pre-sales quota inside 45 minutes.
CHT mentioned 65% of its pre-orders had been for the iPhone 12, whereas FET mentioned the volumes it acquired within the first day of pre-orders had been three-fold larger than it acquired for the earlier lineup launched a 12 months earlier, with 50% of them for the iPhone 12 Pro.
The sources additionally mentioned that availability of the iPhone 12 lineup will assist speed up the alternative demand for 5G from 4G fashions, pushing the variety of 5G service subscribers in Taiwan to 1 million by year-end 2020 or first-quarter 2021 on the earliest.
