China Mobile Clears 4G Hurdle to iPhone Offering. To rollout in Dec18.

China Mobile has won approval to start commercial 4G service in China.

China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile carrier by users, with more than 700 million subscribers. The rollout is expected to start later this month, around the time of a Dec. 18 China Mobile conference in Guangzhou. China Mobile is one of the world’s last major carriers that doesn’t offer the iPhone yet.

Bloomberg and WSJ.