{"id":6392,"date":"2012-02-21T06:07:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T06:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=6392"},"modified":"2012-02-21T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T06:15:00","slug":"china-telecom-in-deal-with-apple-to-sell-iphones-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/6392\/china-telecom-in-deal-with-apple-to-sell-iphones-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"China Telecom in deal with Apple to sell iPhones in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China Telecom, the smallest of the country&#8217;s three carriers, said on Tuesday it had signed an agreement with Apple Inc to sell iPhones in China, the world&#8217;s largest mobile phone market.<\/p>\n<p>China Telecom said in a statement it would take applications for the iPhone 4S online from March 2 and aimed to commence sales on March 9.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement breaks China Unicom&#8217;s previously exclusive right to sell the iconic Apple smartphone in China.<\/p>\n<p>China, the world&#8217;s largest mobile phone market, saw a 1.2 percent monthly increase in total number of mobile subscribers to 987.58 million in January, data from the country&#8217;s three telecom operators showed on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Telecom, the smallest of the country&#8217;s three carriers, said on Tuesday it had signed an agreement with Apple Inc to sell iPhones in China, the world&#8217;s largest mobile phone market. China Telecom said in a statement it would take applications for the iPhone 4S online from March 2 and aimed to commence sales on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,51,423,1562,1560],"class_list":["post-6392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-china","tag-china-telecom","tag-iphone-4s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6400,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions\/6400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}