“China Mobile Communications Corp. said Friday the main obstacle keeping Apple Inc.’s iPhone out of the world’s largest mobile phone market had been cleared now that Apple has dropped its revenue-sharing demands, Agence-France Presse reported,” Michael Kitchen reports for MarketWatch.
“‘We’ve broken through the biggest obstacle and we are negotiating at the working level,’ Gao Songge, deputy director of China Mobile’s general department, told AFP,” Kitchen reports.
“Gao said Apple had given up previous demands, including a requirement to share revenues, but he would not give a timetable for the iPhone hitting the China market, which had 540 million mobile users at the end of November 2007, the report said,” Kitchen reports.
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Zhu Shenshen reports for Shanghai Daily, “Apple will probably launch its iPhone for the Chinese mainland by the end of this year, chief executive Steve Jobs said recently.”
“Apple will launch its 2G iPhone in the Chinese mainland first because the 3G networks will not be ready in time, said Sandy Shen, a Gartner Inc analyst in Shanghai,” Shenshen reports.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers "Fred Mertz" and "Carl H" for the heads up.]
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