China Mobile is the world's largest mobile phone carrier company with 707 million members. The company has an interesting habit. While China Mobile will not subsidize most phones, the company sometimes offers subsidies for certain select phones. For example, earlier this month, the company's president Li Yue hinted that iPhone 5 would not be subsidized by China Mobile because Apple's demands were not reasonable. Because China Mobile is mostly owned by the Chinese government, it will be very picky about which phones it subsidizes and which phones it doesn't subsidize. Back in August, China Mobile announced that it has a set-budget for phone subsidies and the limit for the year 2012 was 26 billion Yuan, which can be translated in $4.1 billion. Because of the limit, it is very important for a company to have its phones to be included in the subsidized group. It is obvious that subsidized phone models will sell far more copies than the phones where the users have to pay the full price and subsidies usually have no additional cost for the phone makers.