(Telecompaper) Alibaba Group and China Telecom will sell low-cost mobile phones with software developed especially for mobile online shopping. Via this initiative, Alibaba and China Telecom plan to boost the use of e-commerce services by China's rural population. Dubbed 'Tianyi Taobao Shopping Handsets', the mobile phones included in the offer will come pre-installed with either the Mobile Taobao shopping app or the YunOS mobile operating system developed by Alibaba, depending upon the intended user base.