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News on China’s Telecom Industry

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Samsung has galactic problems in China
Oct 21, 2016 (WiC 343)

Samsung Electronic’s exploding phones have been generating heat in more ways than one in China, where the company has been on the receiving end of a fierce backlash from consumers who feel they have been treated differently to the rest of the ...

One country, one fee

China’s telecoms operators are ditching their intercity roaming charges
Aug 26, 2016 (WiC 337)

Last October, the European Parliament voted through new rules that will scrap mobile roaming charges within the EU. “After 10 years of tireless fighting, roaming is over. A victory for consumers and a stepping stone towards a truly European ...

Xiaomi pulls back from Brazil in the wake of challenging sales environment
Jun 10, 2016 (WiC 328)

When Xiaomi first arrived in the Brazilian market last year, stocks of its Redmi 2 launch model were depleted within a couple of hours. Xiaomi was delighted, reported ZDnet, claiming that it would thrive from keeping prices low by selling online ...

Siege mentality

How Ren’s iron rules of business warfare have helped Huawei’s rapid growth
May 27, 2016 (WiC 326)

The founder of the telecoms and tech giant Huawei has always been notoriously low-profile and media shy. So this month it was something of a surprise when Ren Zhengfei gave a three-hour interview to Xinhua about his company, his vision and his ...

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 ...

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