China Telecom has been working with BlackBerry developer Research In Motion to distribute its devices in their country. Starting this month, China Telecom will begin selling the BlackBerry Storm 9530, the first 3G BlackBerry device that will go on sale officially in the country of China. China Mobile , which is China Telecom’s competitor, has been selling BlackBerry phones in the country since 2006, but they lack a 3G BlackBerry device. I’m not sure how difficult it is going to be to get your hands on one of these, because as of now, the BlackBerry Storm 9530 is being sold only to government and corporate clients and will be offered in 16 Chinese provinces.
China Telecom spokesman Xu Fei said via e-mail, “Last year when we were talking with RIM, the Storm 9530 was considered to be on the high-end. It was a new device and so that’s why we chose it.”
Source: PCWorld