Apples iphone to land at China Mobile in January

On Sunday 22nd December 2013, Apple officially announced its agreement with China Mobile. China Mobile is the world's largest mobile services provider by network scale and subscriber base, serving over 760 million customers.
According to a press release issued by Apple, the partnership of Apple and China Mobile is now official. The announcement described the deal as a "multi-year agreement."
Apples new iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c will be made available in retail stores operated by China Mobile from January 17, 2014. Both phones will also be available for pre-registration on China Mobiles official website and from its customer service hotline "10086" from Wednesday, December 25, 2013.

"China is an extremely important market for Apple and our partnership with China Mobile presents us the opportunity to bring iPhone to the customers of the world's largest network," Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement. 

Apple stated that China Mobile "now has over 1.2 million 2G/GSM, 3G/TD-SCDMA, 4G/TD-LTE base stations and over 4.2 million Wi-Fi access points, providing broad coverage to quality networks for iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c customers."
China Mobile is also in the process of "rolling out the world's largest 4G network."

Various analysts have estimated that the China Mobile deal will help Apple sell an additional 12 to 23 million smartphones in 2014. An estimated 40 million users are already using iPhones on China Mobile's network, although those unlocked devices have not been able to use the newly launched 4G TD-LTE or even the existing 3G TD-SCDMA networks, making them effectively 2G GSM and WiFi-only devices.