Apple’s iPhone in Russia, which will be distributed through as many as three mobile phone carriers, is likely to generate millions of handset sales. Apple expects a massive 3.5 million iPhones to be sold in Russia within the next two years, according to Reuters’ market sources who are “familiar with new deals being struck by Russian carriers.” One russian carrier, MTS, is aiming for “one million iPhone sales in the next two years,” according to Eldar Murtazin, an analyst with Moscow-based Mobile Research Group. Murtazin suggested that, “Total sales by the Big Three carriers will amount to 3.5 million iPhone within the next two years.”

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