This may ultimately be what puts the brakes on unlimited iPhone growth.
There is still much potential for the iPhone 4 to take off in Asia - including in Australia, where growth potential had once been limited to Telstra customers, Ovum Australia analyst Nathan Burley said.
“From an Australian perspective, one interesting new feature of the iPhone 4 is that it supports quad-band 3G rather than tri-band in the previous versions,” he said.
“This means the iPhone 4 will be able to access the larger 900MHz 3G network footprints of Optus and Vodafone, where previous generations weren’t. The gap to Telstra in terms of network user experience when using the iPhone 4 compared to previous versions will be narrowed.”
Adam Leach is a principal analyst at Ovum