- Reuters, Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:34 PM
China Telecom Corp plans to offer its 106 million subscribers the Apple Inc iPhone by year's-end, sources said, making it the second operator to do so in the world's largest mobile phone market. China
Telecom operates the country's largest fixed-line network and is a relative newcomer to the mobile market. The move would help China Telecom, the smallest of the country's three telecommunications
operators, cement more high-end 3G users in a competitive market.
China has 896 million mobile phone users -- bigger than the entire population of Europe. Its three telecommunications
operators are China Mobile Ltd, China Unicom and China Telecom. China Telecom is expected to introduce the iPhone in November.
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