Both official resellers and China Telecom's website will carry the device.
iPhone sales have grown-up fast in China, it was yield ground to Android as companies like Huawei, Lenovo, and ZTE could sell to China Telecom and China Mobile.
As the second-largest carrier in China, it has access to tens of millions of cellphone users.
The expansion was partly held back by the need for a CDMA version of the iPhone, which wasn't even an option until 2011