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By Herman Lai, posted Jan 26, 2011 at 3:06 PM, 266 views,

China Mobile Talks Over Next-Gen iPhone With Apple

China Mobile

China Mobile Chairman, Wang Jianzhou has confirmed Apple will fully supports China Mobile’s next generation TD-LTE technology and in talks with Apple over an iPhone that will run on its home-grown TD-SCDMA network.

“We hope that when they develop the next-generation models, since Apple can create CDMA, they can also consider developing TD-SCDMA,” Wang Jianzhou told reporters in Davos, Switzerland, “These two years we have been discussing the issue. Right now the situation is moving forward. Apple has made it clear they will support TD-LTE.”

Report found China Mobile has much more mobile phone subscribers then China Unicom. China Mobile has around 584 million subscribers in December last year while China Unicom had 167.4 million. Apparently, China Mobile has the potential to provide a bigger pool of subscribers for the next-gen iPhone.

Source: Reuters, iLounge

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  • Anonymous

    China Unicom and Apple can’t even meet demand in China for there iphone 4, so as long as they can fix the demand issues for the next gen iphone I can see the benefit, however it seems unlikely they’ll be able to meet the demand worldwide for this next generation! The release of the iphone in China has been a real joke first 2 generations weren’t released 3gs came shipped without wifi iphone 4 came out on the blackmarket before the apple stores or unicom, and there are huge shortages of supply so the blackmarket inflates the price. What a joke!!