“We have noticed that some vendors are selling fake iPhones, we want to the public to be aware that there are no duo-sim iPhones,” Blondeau said in a recent interview.
The complaint comes hardly two months after Orange, one of Uganda's eight operational telecoms, started distributing the 3G and 3GS iPhones in Uganda. The phones were introduced with internet bundles at high-end prices ranging between UGX2.7 million and UGX6.5 million, depending on the internet package a buyer opted to have.
But the presence of fake iPhones and market response to the genuine products has pushed Orange to change its pricing strategy. “Feed back from the market shows that people don't want to buy the iPhones and bundles. They want to have the freedom to use their iPhones,” he added. Orange now sells the iPhones alone at between UGX1.8 million and UGX2.4 million depending on their memory capacity which ranges between 1GB to 32GB.
