China Telecom, China Mobile ally against iPhone

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: China Telecom Corporation Ltd. and China Mobile Ltd., two Chinese telecommunications giants, are joining hands against iPhone, a 3G smartphone of Apple Inc. aiming to nibble up the largest Chinese telecommunications market.

In detail, the nation’s largest telecommunications carrier China Mobile, is scheduled to establish its AppStore-similar online store named MobileMarket, which will start running in September 2009. Moreover, the company has been developing the OMS operating system based on the Android platform of Google Inc. in recent two years, and it introduced Android-powered OPhone in partnership with Lenovo Group Ltd. to directly challenge iPhone.

China Telecom is planning to hit the market with star products like Blackberry smartphone while China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. is bringing in iPhone.

For more information, please visit www.chinamobileltd.com/ and www.chinatelecom-h.com/