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China Mobile claims 10 million iPhone users
By Charles Starrett
Senior Editor, iLounge
Published: Monday, October 24, 2011
News Category: iPhone
China Mobile, the world’s largest carrier by subscribers, now has 10 million iPhone users on its network, despite not offering the device, according to a Reuters report. Speaking at the ITU World telecoms fair in Geneva, China Mobile chairman Wang Jianzhou said, “The total number of iPhones in China Mobile’s network has reached 10 million—and we didn’t pay any subsidies.” He went on to say that Apple “promised to provide, when they develop the iPhone for LTE, that it will include TD-LTE,” China Mobile’s next-generation network technology. Wang added that the companies are “discussing the details,” although no agreement has yet been reached. China Mobile had more than 630 million customers at the end of September.
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And of those 10m subscribers, 9.99 million got their phones from Foxconn employees.
On a similar note, comparatively speaking, this is a small percentage of China’s population… especially those displayed by those pesky mega-dams.
Posted by BillyBobSmith on October 26, 2011 at 11:16 PM (PDT)