Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:14 pm
China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone network operator, said today it had not yet reached an agreement with Apple to launch the iPhone 3G in China, but that the firms were still in talks.
"We have been discussing with Apple, but until now no agreement has been reached," said Wang Jianzhou, Chief Executive of China Mobile.
China Mobile said in June last year the main obstacle to introducing the iPhone in China, which had more than 630 million mobile users at the end of 2008, had been cleared when Apple dropped its revenue-sharing demands.
Steve Jobs, Apple Chief Executive, had said he would have liked to see the device introduced in China last year.
A thriving black market in the popular handset has since established itself in China.
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