next versions of Apple ’s iPhone will support China Mobile ’s fourth multiplication ( 4 G ) meshwork , China ’s largest mobile carrier say , a mansion that it will eventually offer up the iconic equipment to its 600 million customers .
China Mobile ’s chairman Wang Jianzhou report the development on Thursday , grant to a company spokeswoman . Both Apple and the toter have reach a consensus on the development of Long - Term Evolution ( LTE ) , a 4 universal gravitational constant engineering that can allow mobile phones to exchange data at much firm rate . When Apple releases iPhones built for 4 gravitational constant networks , the devices will also support China Mobile ’s version of this technology known as LTE TDD ( Time - Division Duplex ) , Wang order .
China Mobile has been in discussions with Apple since 2007 about sell its iPhone product , but the companies have yet to reach agreement . Part of those discussions have revolved around China Mobile ’s third - generation technology known as TD - SCDMA ( Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access ) . If Apple were to betray an iPhone for exercise on China Mobile ’s electronic internet , the company would have to reconstruct the devices so that they could put to work using the carrier ’s TD - SCDMA 3 G web .
The lack of an official iPhone in China ’s Mobile smartphone offerings has given its rival China Unicom an edge in the market , according to analysts . presently China Unicom , which has 174 million mobile ratifier , is the only carrier in the rural area to officially sell Apple ’s iPhone .
Apple could not be achieve for immediate scuttlebutt . In the past , the company has said China , including Hong Kong and Taiwan , is Apple ’s profligate growing market for its iPhone devices . But there has been no official word on when a 4 one thousand iPhone will arrive .
China has already begun large - scale test of its 4 GiB LTE TDD technology . The research and development of commercial equipment for the new networkswill be completed in 2012 . But it ’s unclear when the networks will be available for actual commercial use of goods and services .
