In January Apple is planning to offer the IPhone to the more
than 760 million china mobile customers which could help it to raise its share
from the fifth position in the growing market.
Apples has already sells its phones in china through two
other carriers in the country-- China Telecom and China Unicom but to deal with
mobile, the largest in the country, has escaped it for some time. Reason may be
behind it is that China Mobile uses a different wireless telecommunications
standard from its competitors.
According to rumors it was announced on Sunday, Apple’s
iPhone 5s and iPhone 5C will be available from china Mobile and on apple retail
store in china on Jan 17. Preregistration of the phone will started on the
carrier website and through its customer service hotline from Wednesday.
Apple said on his statement, the pricing of the iPhone 5s
and 5c for china mobile will be offered at a later date.
According to the research firm it comes to know that apple
share of the Chinese smartphone reached 8percent in the third quarter. Samsung
Electronics was the third largest player with having 21percent market share, surveyed
by Lenovo with a 13 percent share. Yulong Computer telecommunication with 11
percent market share and Huawei with 9 percent has taken the third and fourth
stage.
On December china issued 4G licenses to three local carriers
including China Telecom, which has been Organizing base station across the
country using a 4G technology recognized as LTE TDD (Long- Term Evolution Time
Division Duplex).
Apple had been supporting china Telecom TD-SCDMA (Time
Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) 3G network technology but
on Sunday it’s declared that the iPhones would run on both 4G TD-LTE and 3G
TD-SCDMA networks.
By the end of the year according to a joint statement the
two companies China Mobile 4G services will be available in 16 cities including
Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
In 2014 china mobile plans to complete the rollout of more
than 500,000 4G base stations, in which they will target more than 340 cities
with 4G service, it added.
In September Apple added NTTDOCOMO, Japan's largest carrier,
to its list of customers for the iPhone.