China Telecom to sell iPhone 4S from 9 March

China Telecom will begin selling the Apple iPhone 4S to customers on 9 March. Online reservations for the device will open on 2 March, the company said in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange. The company also said that following the launch of the iPhone 4S, it will make an "appropriate increase in marketing initiatives for the profitable scale development of its mobile services." The iPhone 4S launched earlier with mobile operator China Unicom. China Telecom is expected to offer a CDMA version of the device.