Apple nears iPhone deals for Japan, Korea, says report

Apple is doing pretty good in the European and American market, but what about the millions and millions potential customers in Asian countries like Japan and Korea. NTT DoCoMo Inc, isn’t a household name here in North America, but they are the leading mobile service provider and may be the carrier of the iPhone in Korea. The iPhone is currently in Egypt, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Jordan, Slovakia, Peru, Jamaica, Mexico and many other countries, so why not Korea and Japan? DoCoMo has wanted to be the carrier of the iPhone for quite some time now, and has been in talks since December of 2007. DoCoMo has about 53 million subscribers, and 44.4 million of those are using their speedy 3G network. Not only would it be a mistake to not put out in these countries, but Gene Munster believes it will happen.

“We would say Japan is 90% likely [to have the iPhone] by the end of 2008,”

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