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Telecoms

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Mega telco merger to follow graft clean up?
Jan 8, 2016 (WiC 308)

In Confucian philosophy xiao, or filial piety, is the primary duty of all human beings. But Xi Jinping looks more interested in advocating a second key Confucian virtue: zhong or loyalty. But the Chinese president’s ...

Hampshire phone firm gets new Chinese owner
Nov 27, 2015 (WiC 305)

In a recent book review in the British magazine The Spectator, Stephen Bayley observed that “the BMW-sponsored London Olympics were held on a site devastated by Luftwaffe planes powered by BMW’s engines”. If that seems ironic, others ...

Cisco and Ericsson join up to meet Huawei threat
Nov 20, 2015 (WiC 304)

It is not often a Chinese brand features in the Financial Times’ “How To Spend It” supplement. But Huawei has just rubbed shoulders with some of the elite world brands the section showcases, thanks to a rave review of its P8 ...

Can virtual reality headsets revive HTC?
Sep 18, 2015 (WiC 296)

The past few years have not been kind to Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC. After creating the world’s first Android smartphone in 2002 the company prospered for almost a decade, building up a global market share of 10.7% by 2011. Since ...

The Shenzhen unicorn

Peter Fuhrman, a tech investment banker in China, analyses OnePlus
Jul 17, 2015 (WiC 290)

A sizeable quotient of the techno-hip crowd in the US and Europe is counting down the days to the launch next week of the newest Android mobile phone by China’s OnePlus. It’s called the OnePlus 2 and follows a little more than a year after ...

Apple’s new core customers

China is becoming more important to Tim Cook than the US
May 8, 2015 (WiC 280)

For years Chinese consumers have joked that an iPhone is so expensive that you need to sell a kidney to afford one (sadly, a teenager tried to do exactly that in 2011). But now the price is about to fall, it seems. In April, Apple launched an ...

Chinese handset makers in patent skirmish
May 1, 2015 (WiC 279)

Last year ZTE’s Nubia smartphone received an unexpected celebrity endorsement. That occurred when China’s First Lady Peng Liyuan was spotted holding the phone while on a trip to Europe with her husband Xi Jinping. The Shenzhen-based ...

Huawei gets green light from the Brits
Apr 10, 2015 (WiC 276)

One way in which China differs from, say, Britain, is the degree to which many of its people take an interest in the achievements of Chinese companies abroad. Thus, last month, when telecoms giant Huawei was given a clean bill of health by a ...

Telefonica, the only foreign telco left in China, halves its investment
Nov 21, 2014 (WiC 261)

On the morning of November 15, 1999 Chinese hopes of joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO) were fading fast. Bilateral talks with the United States had broken down and the American delegation led by Charlene Barshefsky was preparing to take ...

Licence to roam

After Alibaba’s success, is Xiaomi going to IPO?
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

While attending the APEC summit in Beijing this week, BlackBerry’s chief executive John Chen met with Lei Jun and Yang Yuanqing, the chief executives of Xiaomi and Lenovo, respectively. Though few details emerged from the meetings, Chen later ...

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