China Mobile Skirts Apple to Add 5 Million IPhone Users: Tech

November 08, 2011, 12:49 PM EST Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) — China Mobile Ltd. failed to get Apple Inc.’s cooperation to make iPhones for its proprietary 3G network. That didn’t stop the carrier from signing up almost 5 million users of the smartphone in four months. its trick: Offer Wi-Fi instead. The world’s biggest carrier by …