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«big three" mobile operators, which includes MTS, Megafon and VimpelCom (Beeline), refused to smartphones Apple. The main reason for this gap have become major marketing costs, which the US company claimed their distribyutorov.
In addition, the operating companies were obliged to buy about 1, 5 million units in two years, which far exceeds the demand for the iPhone in Russia, given its market value. Such a policy would strengthen the Russian market of smartphones based on Windows Phone and the like, are not particularly popular until recently. As for further sales products Apple, but now i-device can be seen on the shelves of retail chains, such as "The Messenger", or other authorized resellers ...
Source: mirfactov.com/