Almost 3 months after launch iPhone 5, Apple decided to bring the terminal to China, and the operator China Unicom claims that it registered over 200.000 pre-orders for the terminal in just 3 days after their opening. We are talking here only about pre-orders made with a single operator, those registered by Apple have not been published and of course no one knows what other pre-orders were registered at Apple product resellers or at third-party retailers in China.
China Unicom is just one of the mobile phone operators in China, it has enough subscribers, but it does not come close to the customer base of China Mobile. 700 million subscribers use the services of China Mobile, and the iPhone is not yet available with this operator, but Apple is talking with company officials to include it in the offer of the largest mobile phone operator in the world.
