Apple will reportedly support LTE, according to China Mobile. Furthermore, the company may be developing an LTE iPhone (though the Verizon iPhone will not be LTE).

As Reuters reports:

“We hope that when they develop the next-generation models, since Apple can create CDMA, they can also consider developing TD-SCDMA,” China Mobile Chairman Wang Jianzhou was quoted as saying on Wednesday by the Sina Technology news portal.

“These two years we have been discussing the issue. Right now the situation is moving forward. Apple has made it clear they will support TD-LTE,” Wang said in Davos, Switzerland.

Apple COO Tim Cook recently stated that currently LTE chips would require design changes in the iPhone to be made, which is why they won’t feature in the Verizon iPhone. Apple will therefore wait for the “second generation” of LTE chips to premiere, before including them in an iPhone handset.

We’ll keep you posted.