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News on China’s Telecom Industry

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Bumper results for Huawei, as Guo Ping makes way for new boss
Apr 8, 2016 (WiC 319)

Thank you very much. Now take a break. That was one way of looking at events at Huawei Technologies last week after chief executive Guo Ping reported the company’s best results since 2008. Huawei’s net profit rose by a third to Rmb37 billion ...

When the chips are down

ZTE ruling may hasten China’s push for tech self-sufficiency
Mar 18, 2016 (WiC 317)

The last time that ZTE Corporation had a run-in with regulators in the United States its response was relentlessly positive, with claims that the row had helped to boost awareness of the Shenzhen-based tech firm. “So far, the report really ...

Better together

Does Unicom and China Telecom pact signal a full-blown mega-merger?
Jan 22, 2016 (WiC 310)

At the heart of Beijing’s commercial district is Financial Street and there you will find – aside from investment banks – the glass-and-steel headquarters of many of China’s giant state-owned-enterprises. That includes all three ...

North versus south

Why is Huawei beating Lenovo in bid for smartphone supremacy?
Jan 8, 2016 (WiC 308)

Google and Apple were once so close that Google’s Eric Schmidt sat on Apple’s board. Their products didn’t overlap and both firms appeared to share a common enemy in Microsoft. That changed in late 2007 when Google revealed its new Android ...

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 ...

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