Future versions of the Apple iPhone will support fourth generation network (4 G) China Mobile, largest Chinese mobile carrier said, a sign that it will finally provide the iconic device to customers of $ 600 million.
President of China Mobile Nurhaci Wang made the development Thursday, according to a spokesman for the company. Apple and the carrier reached a consensus on the development of the evolution in the long term (LTE), a 4 G technology that can exchange data at much faster rates, mobile phones. When Apple releases iPhones built for networks 4 G devices will also support version of China Mobile for this technology called LTE TDD (time Division Duplex), Wang said.
China Mobile in talks with Apple since 2007 on the sale of its product of the iPhone, but companies have yet to agree. Part of these discussions have revolved around China Mobile technology 3rd generation TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access). If Apple to sell iPhone for use on the network of China Mobile, the company would rebuild the devices so that they can work using the TD - SCDMA 3 G network.
The absence of an official iPhone offers Mobile smartphone from China gave its rival China Unicom ahead on the market, according to analysts. China Unicom, which has 174 million mobile subscribers, is currently the only carrier in the country to officially sell Apple iPhone.
Apple could not be reached for immediate comment. In the past, the company said China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, is the market grows from Apple for its iPhone devices. But there has been no official word on when will happen an iPhone 4 G.
China has already begun large scale of its 4 G LTE TDD technology testing. The research and development of commercial equipment for the new networks will be completed in 2012. But it is not known when the networks will be available for actual commercial use.
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