Windows phone market has gotten so big in Russia such that the country's largest wireless carrier drops supprot for iPhone because it thinks Apple isn't offering a fair deal.
"Apple wants operators to pay them huge money, subsidizing iPhones and their promotion in Russia," Andrei Dubovskov, CEO of OAO Mobile TeleSystems, told Bloomberg. "Now it's not beneficial for us. It's good we stopped selling the iPhone as these sales would've brought us a negative margin."
They wouldn't have been able to do this if there isn't a good alternative with a large market. First quarter reports reveal that windows phone sales almost equal iPhone sales, this as also been made possible as a result of Nokia's traditional strength in Russia.
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