China Mobile, the largest mobile operator in the world by number of subscribers, the beginning of the implementation of the iPhone. About it on January 17, informs resource TechCrunch.

At the ceremony in Beijing there were the head of Apple's Tim cook. China Mobile has offered clients iPhone 5s and 5. Model 5s with 16 GB of memory will visitor for free, if he will agree to a two-year contract with China Mobile, which each month will spend about 97 bucks. In another version of the contract, the customer can pay 625 dollars for this model, but a month spending on communication constitute 31 per dollar.

Rivals China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicorn - contracts for iPhone is cheaper, but China Mobile provides access to fast networks TD-LTE, which has no competitors. Specifically to work in super-fast networks and is designed iPhone 5s.

Negotiations with Apple, China Mobile intermittently went with 2008. Newspaper the Wall Street Journal in December 2013 have linked long negotiations with reluctance Apple to sell own smartphones with credible 3G networks, at that time, as China Mobile was dissatisfied with rigid obligations iPhone sales, which required Apple.

According to cook, Apple at the end of 2013 implemented in mainland China more than 10.4 million phones.

China Mobile's $ 750 million subscribers. The company is the leader on this indicator as at home, and around the world.
sections: World News, Economics