KT, Korea’s second-largest mobile-phone carrier, provided Apple’s latest gadget to its first 10,000 customers on the first day of its release and says it has received nearly 300,000 orders, including 20,000 on Friday alone, reports the “Korea Times” (http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2010/09/133_72869.html).
KT has sold nearly 900,000 of Apple’s previous handset, the iPhone 3GS. It hopes that the iPhone 4 will further boost its efforts to narrow the gap with rival SK Telecom, Korea’s largest mobile carrier, says the “Korea Times.”