IPhone’s Russian Carrier Blames ‘Dictatorship’ for $1,000 Price
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OAO Mobile TeleSystems, the iPhone’s biggest wireless carrier in Russia, criticized Apple Inc. for not cutting the device’s $1,000-plus price in the country and being too strict about how it’s sold.
The phone’s cost makes it a hard sell in a market where rival models go for as little as $120, executives from the Moscow-based company said at an event yesterday in New York. Apple also requires that the carrier’s retail locations meet its standards, imposing additional burdens, MTS said.