NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- China Mobile CEO Li Yue said Thursday the wireless carrier added approximately one million Apple (AAPL) iPhone users in February, according to The Wall Street Journal.
"We added 1.34 million new 4G users in February and most of them are iPhone users. We are happy with the progress as we are still building our 4G network and the coverage is only available in some major cities," China Mobile Chairman Xi Guohua told The Wall Street Journal.
China Mobile, which launched faster 4G service in December, began selling the iPhone on Jan. 17. The partnership gives Apple access to 776 million potential new subscribers in the Chinese market, the largest smartphone market in the world by shipments. Analysts expect the deal to increase Apple's iPhone shipments in 2014 by 15 million to 30 million. The company reported it had sold 51 million iPhones worldwide in the quarter ended Dec. 28.
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