“A rumor has been going through the Chinese Web that China Unicom, one of the major mobile service providers in China, has signed with Apple and will introduce Apple’s 3G iPhone to the Chinese mainland in August this year,” ChinaTechNews reports.
“China Unicom has not made any comment,” ChinaTechNews reports.
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Anybody know which 3G network standard will be used by the iPhone in China? Does the iPhone support TD-SCDMA?
China Mobile is testing TD-SCDMA since May. When it is done, Unicom can start WCDMA.
After that, Chinese government will issue 3G licenses.
Not likely as it is, but this might be the point of contention. If China only begins deploying their own flavour of 3G with TD-SCDMA, handset makers will have to build it, and since these handsets are already being built in China anyway, there should be plenty of interested chip makers to supply the radios.
Whichever solution it ends up being, it will be a significant success. It will sell spectacularly.
Don’t forget that Japan is CDMA/WCDMA – which does not preclude another 3G iPhone from being released
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A few weeks ago, it was rumored that China Unicom would get WCDMA when the chinese telecom market had finished its restructuring from 5 players to 3. That might have stimulated the iPhone on China Unicom rumors.
Having said that, Steve Jobs, after his WWDC keynote, was interviewed by Jim Goldman of CNBC, where he was asked about Russia and China and Steve said they would likely be coming by the end of the year, but that in China, they were working thru the regulatory bodies. There’s a video clip of the interview up at CNBC.
Here’s the Youtube of the CNBC Jim Goldman interview with Steve where he mentions Russia and China at the 1:55 mark.
No … Apple does not support TD-SDMA, nor hardly any other international phone manufacturer. It a pile of shit … a failing scam by the Chinese government to create their own standard.
It is a widely shared joke, and no operator there wants to be saddled with that albatross.
Does the “pile of shit” and “failing scam” apply to Qualcomm’s CDMA “standard”? Whereas the entire rest of the world (except Japan) uses GSM?
Another reason the USA is so behind the times in the mobile landscape?
Luckily the original iPhone supported GSM.