China Mobile and apple officially joined hands to launch the contract machine today! On January 17th, China Mobile and Apple Corp formally launched China Mobile iPhone 5S (A1518) and iPhone 5C (A1516) today for the Chinese mainland. Before that, the price and contract price of iPhone 5S / 5C have been published. The retail price of iPhone 5S starts from 5288 yuan, and the contract price starts from 5488 yuan; the price of iPhone 5C starts from 4488 yuan, and the contract price starts from 4688 yuan.
China Mobile's iPhone 5S / 5C will support China Mobile's 4G (TD-LTE) network and 3G (TD-SCDMA) network, but when used in the mainland, it cannot support WCDMA (China Unicom 3G) and lte-fdd network. But when users roam overseas, the mobile iPhone 5S / 5C will support WCDMA and lte-fdd networks.
It is understood that China Mobile provides users with two kinds of sales schemes: bare metal sales and contract sales. The principle of price separation is adopted in the design. When users purchase the iPhone of China Mobile, they can determine the appropriate contract scheme according to their own needs, business habits and characteristics of the iPhone, combined with the 4G package of China Mobile.
Take the iPhone 5S 16GB as an example. If the user doesn't change the 4G package, they will give 400m traffic every month for three consecutive months. If users change the 4G package, they can get 400m more traffic per month for one year in a row if they choose the 50 yuan traffic module, and 1g more traffic per month for one year in a row if they choose the 70 yuan traffic module.
At present, China Mobile recommends seven packages to users, starting at 138 yuan, with a maximum price of 588 yuan. Under the 138 yuan package, users can use 500 minutes of free voice, 600m traffic; while with the 588 yuan package, users can use 4000 minutes of free voice, 5g traffic. The charge outside the voice package is 0.19 yuan / minute, and the charge outside the traffic package is 0.29 yuan / m.
If the user purchases the iPhone 5S 16GB contract machine, he / she can choose a 24-month package of 588 yuan. The purchase price is 0 yuan, the pre saved call fee is 5488 yuan, and 229 yuan is returned each month. If the user chooses the 188 yuan package for 24 months, the purchase price is 3788 yuan, the prepaid phone fee is 1700 yuan, and 71 yuan is returned each month.
Previously, China Mobile officially announced a 4G unified tariff plan for the whole network, which includes three tariff elements: mobile data traffic, nationwide long buy it now voice and data service. Among them, there are 7 mobile data traffic files from 40 yuan 400m to 280 yuan 10g; 7 national long market buy it now voice files from 48 yuan 200Min to 408 yuan 4000min; 3 data services including SMS and MMS.