Apple and the operator China Mobile severed their negotiations to sell the iPhone in China, reports the British news agency Reuters.

Apple and China Mobile have not reached agreement on the sharing of revenues from the sale of cellular phone touchscreen Chinese consumers. The mobile operator alone has a base of 350 million subscribers, which represented a tremendous potential market for the Californian company, says Reuters.

"It's not a surprise, told Reuters Duncan Clark, president of BDA China, a consulting firm in mobile phone factory in the capital, Beijing. The two companies have very large egos and, as in a romantic relationship, it can not work. "

According to the news agency, China Mobile would also be resistant to the idea of selling its subscribers to a cellular phone, which costs the equivalent of about two months' wages for most Chinese workers.

Note that China Mobile offers all the same telephone multifunction BlackBerry to its subscribers, since it has reached an agreement with one of the main rivals of Apple, the Canadian firm Research in Motion (RIM).

China Unicom, the second mobile operator in the Asian country, said it was not interested in selling the iPhone to its 156 million subscribers.

According to Reuters, Apple also suffer difficulties in successfully conclude our negotiations that have been started recently in Japan with the mobile operator NTT DoCoMo, whose clientele exceeds the milestone of 53 million subscribers.

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