Apple Moves a Step Closer to Offering IPhone to China Telecom Subscribers

Posted by Joachim Bartels | Jan 11, 2012 | Apple, China, Mobile Services | 0 |

Apple moved a step closer to accessing 33 million potential iPhone customers in China, as regulators approved specifications for a device that would run on the network of China Telecom Corp.

The China Radio Management Office granted Apple’s application for a handset that operates on the CDMA2000 network standard, the regulator said in a statement posted on its website this week. The wireless standard is the third-generation network technology used by Hong Kong-listed China Telecom, China’s third-largest carrier.

Source: Bloomberg

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