Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, told the Financial Times that the company had approached Nokia, Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson with an offer to co-fund research and development.
China Mobile's offer shows the scale of its problems in developing third-generation mobile technology. Mobile operators rarely pay for R&D by handset makers.
The company is China's dominant mobile operator, with 464m customers, who use second-generation handsets capable of making phone calls and sending text messages.
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