China Mobile is trying to convince Apple to include its own home-grown 3G standard in the next generation iPhone.
According to the Financial Times, China Mobile is concerned about falling behind China Unicom who has a licence for 3G services using the popular 3GSM standard and China Telecom who uses the WCDMA 3G standard used in North America.
Wang Jianzhou, China Mobile chairman and chief executive, said that "including TD-SCDMA is not that hard to do - RIM is doing it"; however, he added that Apple had not yet responded to his proposal.
Wang said that China Mobile hopes to increase its number of 3G users from 3.4m to at least 10m this year.
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