VinaPhone increases iPhone 4 price by 700,000 dong

VinaPhone telecom firm has decided to increase prices of kinds of iPhone smart phones by 700,000 dong per unit, 3 times higher than expected due to impacts of forex rate.

Accordingly, iPhone 3G price was raised by 600,000 dong, iPhone 4 up 700,000 dong per unit, applied on 16GB and 32GB versions.

iPhone 3GS 8GB was hiked from 10.27 million dong to 10.72 million dong (exclusive VAT), applied on prepaid customers. Similarly, iPhone 4 16GB was up to 12.999 million dong from 12.45 million dong, iPhone 4 32GB from 14.635 million dong to 15.362 million dong (exclusive VAT).

This price adjustment, according to VinaPhone, came from the affects of forex rate. Previously expected increase of the firm was only 5%, lower than the real increase of 9.3%.

Initially, an official at VinaPhone had set to raise iPhone price by only 200,000 dong per unit. However, after calculating input costs and a rise of forex rate, the firm decided to hike 700,000 dong.

Since June, VinaPhone provided around 15,000 iPhone 3G-3GS handsets and iPhone 4 units to the market. As planned, about 3,000 iPhone 4 and 3GS units will be arriving Vietnam by this weekend, and then they will be distributed to the market by VinaPhone.

Similarly, Viettel also will import 2,500 iPhone 4 units along with 500 iPhone 3 ones in the coming time.

In the free market, each iPhone 4 16GB is sold at 19.5 million dong, and the version 32GB at 21.9 million dong, a 6-month high.

Tags: iPhone 4 prices, iPhone 4 Vietnam

Posted by VBN on Mar 3 2011. Filed under Technology, Telecommunication. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry