Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone 5 is headed to China next week on the country’s second-largest mobile carrier China Telecom. But do you know who’s not getting the iPhone 5? China Mobile, China’s largest mobile carrier and the world’s biggest wireless service provider with 703 million subscribers. Speaking at the 2012 China Mobile Worldwide Developer Conference, China Mobile’s president Li Yue told attendees “technology is not a problem, [it is] mainly about business model and benefit-sharing issues.” Yue’s statement refutes the belief that China Mobile isn’t getting the iPhone 5 because it uses TD-SCDMA, a 3G frequency developed by the Chinese Academy of Telecommunications Technology that is incompatible with global GSM and CDMA network devices. If China Mobile is to get the iPhone 5, Apple would
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