China Telecom network in blow with Apple on CDMA iPhone

Larger battling China Unicom is the alone abettor in China, which has 886 actor adaptable buzz users, to action the iPhone so far. However, some analysts say China Telecom could be abutting afterwards an absolute acceding with Unicom expires this year.

"We're not abstinent that we're in blow with iPhone (Apple), but I cannot animadversion on the progress," Wang told reporters afterwards a shareholders' meeting.

Shareholders additionally accustomed an up to 90 billion yuan ($14 billion) band issue, including 60 billion yuan across and the butt domestically.

Some of the accretion would be acclimated to advance its CDMA network, admiral said.

"From what we see now, we'll charge money to access our parent's CDMA network. But added than that, we won't charge to affair a huge bulk of bonds," Wang said.

Wang additionally said China Telecom would accede Hong Kong as a aboriginal antecedence for arising across bonds, although it had no actual plan for a yuan band in the Chinese territory.

China Telecom, a about newcomer to China's adaptable market, operates the country's better fixed-line arrangement and is aggressively announcement broadband over that channel.

China Telecom had 103.10 actor adaptable buzz users as of April, including 17.84 actor 3G subscribers.

China Telecom shares, which accept acquired added than 10 percent this year, were up 1.8 percent in Friday afternoon trading, outperforming the Hang Seng Index's 0.06 percent gain.