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As it was announced, KT Corp, iPhone exclusive carrier in South Korea, started accepting pre-orders today for Apple’s latest phone, the iPhone 4. However, as it happened in the US, servers were not able to handle the high volume of orders.
“The only glitch of the day was the server jam early in the morning. KT started receiving orders at 6 a.m. Many iPhone fans at once stormed the server at one time, partly because the company had said it would hand out launching-party invitations to the first 10,000 customers. Many complained that the website didn’t work properly until 8 a.m., and then remained slow throughout the day. By 10 a.m., more than 60,000 signed up. At 12 a.m., the tally exceeded 100,000,” Korea Times reported.
The first day easily broke the record for pre-ordering in Korea. With the previous model, the iPhone 3G, KT had received 65,000 pre-orders over five days in October ― the record high for Korea at the time. With the iPhone 4, the firm got the same amount in only three hours.
Source: Korea Times (http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/08/123_71631.html)