BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Thu May 09th, 2013
China Mobile and Apple could soon announce a deal to bring the iPhone to China's largest carrier.
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BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Mon May 06th, 2013
Apple's own carrier rules are one of the reasons the iPhone mini is likely to launch.
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BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Tue February 19th, 2013
More on the so-called iPhone mini.
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BY Joe White on Thu December 06th, 2012
China Mobile is reportedly in talks with Apple regarding a potential iPhone deal.
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BY Aldrin Calimlim on Sun September 09th, 2012
Contrary to earlier reports, it now seems unlikely that the upcoming iPhone 5 will have support for China Mobile's proprietary standard.
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BY Andy Faust III on Thu June 21st, 2012
Apple's upcoming iPhone could be the world's first truly global cellular handset.
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BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Wed March 28th, 2012
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s visit this week to China is taking on added significance. The Wall Street Journal today reported Cook met with senior Chinese Leader Li Keqiang this week to discuss strengthening ties in a market Apple has long neglected.
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BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Wed July 13th, 2011
China Telecom Corp Ltd will soon be offering its 106 million subscribers access to the iPhone for the first time, according to news first reported exclusively by Reuters. The news, which comes just weeks after Apple COO Tim Cook’s recent visit to China, means that two of the country’s three carriers will now offer the popular handset.
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BY Joe White on Tue March 08th, 2011
China Mobile recently stated that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is interested in developing an iPhone that could run on the carrier’s network. If Apple supported China Mobile's upcoming network (based on the carrier's TD standard), iPhone sales in China would increase massively.
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BY Tyler Tschida on Tue September 01st, 2009
Last week we reported that Apple finally struck a deal with China Unicom to bring the iPhone to China. At that time, few details were known except that it was a 3-year deal and it
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BY Tyler Tschida on Thu March 05th, 2009
The on-again, off-again talks between Apple and both of China's largest mobile phone carriers are on once again. Earlier this month, it was rumored that Apple had again begun talks with China Unicom and possibly
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BY Tyler Tschida on Fri February 13th, 2009
Earlier this week we reported that Apple has been negotiating with China Mobile, China's largest mobile carrier, for about 18 months without much progress. There have now been reports that Apple has been negotiating with
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BY Tyler Tschida on Mon February 09th, 2009
According to an inside source at the China Mobile Research Institute, the most recent talks between Apple and China Mobile broke down over control of the App Store. This isn't the first time the two
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BY Andrew Robinowitz on Thu September 25th, 2008
China didn't make the cut for inclusion on Apple's latest list of countries to receive the iPhone 3G, and now reports are surfacing that explain some of the details behind the holdup. Apparently, China Mobile,
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