China's Oppo smartphones to debut in Japan next spring

Handset giant to pitch SIM-free phones to Japanese telecoms companies

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Oppo plans to enter the Japanese SIM-free smartphone market in 2018.

TOKYO -- Consumer electronics manufacturer Oppo, the company holding the largest share of China's smartphone market, will start selling SIM-free phones in Japan in the spring.

Oppo recently set up a Japanese unit with a view to selling midrange smartphones for mobile virtual network operators, which mainly sell low-end handsets, by April.

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