Pre-sale finished ‘Galaxy S8’ to be in operation as of April 18

Samsung Electronics` smartphone Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus operation will be launched on April 18. There is a growing interest in the Galaxy S8 series that the smarthphone whether has been sold more than 1 million units in and out of the industry. It is expected that the mobile number transfer market, which has not stagnated due to atmospheric demand, will also strike with the Galaxy S8 booking sales opening.

Pre sale of the Galaxy S8 series will close on April 17. On the same day, the mobile telecom market was trying to attract more Galaxy S8 subscribers until the last day of pre sale even in the rainy weather.

A representative of mobile carrier dealer in Jongro-gu, Seoul said, ‘As many people have already completed pre sale procedures, most of the visitors are coming to see the Galaxy S8’.

In some online retailers and social network service (SNS) bands, we were able to find examples of collecting Galaxy S8 subscribers with illegal subsidies of hundreds of thousands of paybacks before the launch.

Samsung Electronics announced on April 12 that it had 728,000 pre-sold the smartphones. Galaxy S 8, Galaxy Note 7, which recorded 400,000 units in the 13 days of pre-sale last year, have leaped lightly over the previous maximum number. The visitors of the Galaxy S8 experience zone, which opened on April 1, exceeded 1.6 million visitors in just 15 days.

Earlier, Samsung Electronics president Koh Dong-jin presented 1 million units as the pre sale target for domestic market on April 13. If the company has sold 54,400 units every day for five days from April 13 to 17th, it is possible to reach the target. The final sales volume is expected to be released after noon on April 18.

According to the Galaxy S8 pre sale market, the fact that pre sale quantities are reflected in mobile carrier market (new subscriptions, equipment changes, number portability) is the beginning of the opening April 18. Considering that most payback subscriptions are focused on collecting number portability subscribers, the number of port number portability is expected to rise vertically from April 18. By April 16, the total number transfers were 17,552, which is an average of 16,508 per day. The average number of mobile phones has been reduced from 13,000 to 14,000 per day since the waiting list for mobile phones has been sold as a pre-sale before and after the launch of the Galaxy S8 on April 7.

In the telecom industry, the Galaxy S8 launch is expected to be boosted by the official launch of the Galaxy S8 after its launch on April 21. As the shortage of premium phones has increased, interest in the Galaxy S8 has increased accordingly, and demand for Samsung Electronics` marketing efforts to recover the Galaxy Note 7 discontinuity last year and the demand for telecommunication distribution network to recover from the market downturn have been met. Although, LG Electronics released the G6 in March, it was only a shiny blast and failed to open a consumer wallet.

However, it is unclear how much the Galaxy S8`s pre sale records will actually open up. Some have raised the possibility that a substantial number of pre sales were included in the booked sales volume. Noh Chung-gwan, head of Korea telecommunication association, said, ‘The number of Galaxy S8 pre sale is better than the Galaxy S7, but it is said that the Galaxy S8 is not as good as the Galaxy Note 7. In the telecom industry, the ratio of pre sales to actual sales is about 70% for the iPhone and Galaxy series.

By Jung Yoon Hee yuni@


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