For China Mobile, 4G and next iPhone are key to unlocking Apple demand

China Mobile hopes to tap pent-up demand for Apple smartphones by rolling out new 4G technology this year and having an iPhone model that will finally run on it.

The world’s largest mobile carrier - with more than twice as many subscribers as there are people in the United States - already has more than 10 million of its customers owning an iPhone even though the gadget doesn’t properly work with the Chinese firm’s homegrown TD-SCDMA 3G technology, which is not compatible with global technologies.

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