For this to happen, China Mobile needs to step up its efforts in the 3G arena.
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Clearwire, Softbank, China Mobile and Vodafone were among the founding members of the group.
They've already inked a deal with China Mobile and their 100 million cellphone subscribers.
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China Mobile also subsidizes and sells a number of Android smartphones on its network.
This follows the 5.5 million net 3G subscribers China Mobile had added during December.
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The company is also pouring resources into developing Android-based handsets for the Chinese operator China Mobile.
It faces stiff competition from market leader China Mobile and also from China Unicom.
China Mobile sells Lumia 920T for 4599 yuan, but with wireless charging pad or other gifts.
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China Mobile is now aggressively rolling out a 2.5 TD LTE system in China.
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This had been the stumbling block for China Mobile and Apple to come to an agreement.
This agreement is not just for the benefit of Apple, but for China Mobile as well.
And China Mobile is playing along, Wu reports, promoting its Wi-Fi service with free gift cards.
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The brace of existing mobile operators, China Mobile and China Unicom, will make up the numbers.
Rival iPhone carrier China Unicom Hong Kong added 2.3%, while China Mobile closed 1% higher.
Meanwhile China Mobile has around 17m customers who have bought their iPhones on the grey market.
China Mobile has been in desperate need for a flagship high end smart phone.
China Mobile Limited (CHL) is the largest cellular provider in the world by number of subscribers.
And with a 2-year contract, China Mobile offers the Lumia 920T with only 1 yuan!
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In my view, this is not the primary reason for China Mobile to hold off carrying iPhone.
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China Mobile, like all Chinese carriers, uses a unique technology standard (TD-SCDMA) for its 3G cellular network.
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Our first idea is Vodafone, which is the world's second-largest wireless company, second only to China Mobile.
This will also help lower per phone subsidy costs and potentially help bring China Mobile on board.
Of China Mobile's 14m new customers in the first half of this year, 95% took this option.
This will also help decrease the per phone subsidy costs and help it bring aboard China Mobile.
China Mobile, with close to 700 million mobile subscribers, controls almost 65% of the Chinese wireless market.
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Apple seems to not be making an exception (or at least one big enough) for China Mobile.
Carriers, with the exception of China Mobile, are now adding more number of 3G subscribers than 2G.
China Mobile has also managed to overcome its 3G shortcomings by building out a nationwide Wi-Fi network.
China Mobile already has 7.44 million iPhones on its network, despite it not having a deal with Apple.
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China Mobile uses its 3G mobile network based on its TDSCDMA standard, which Apple currently does not support.
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