Trump Moves to Block China Mobile's U.S. Entry on Security Concerns
The U.S. government has moved to block China Mobile (0941.HK) from offering services to the country’s telecommunications market, recommending its application be rejected because the firm posed national security risks.
China Is Building a $2 Billion Office Park in Beijing Just for AI
Last year, China said it plans to be a world leader in AI by 2030. Now its capital is building a massive campus to house the AI firms that will power that rise, according to local media outlet Beijing News (link in Chinese).
China Telecom Picked to Become the Philippines' Third Telecoms Player
China Telecom Corp could become the Philippines’ third nationwide telecommunications operator, officials of the Southeast Asian country said on Sunday, as the government sought to stir up competition to boost notoriously poor fixed-line broadband...
Fake Girlfriends, Chengdu Rappers, and a Chow Chow Making Bank
from Yuanjin PhotoLonely dog owners in Beijing and a rented girlfriend in Fujian; the last Oroqen hunters in Heilongjiang and homegrown hip hop in Chengdu; young Chinese in an Indian tech hub and Hong Kong apartments only slightly larger than coffins—these are...
China’s Huawei Could Overtake Apple This Year in Smartphones, Top Analyst Says
In the second quarter of this year, Huawei held a 11.3 percent market share, shipping 38.5 million units, IDC data show. Apple meanwhile shipped 41 million iPhones and had a 12 percent market share in the same period.
Former State Department Security Officer Accused of Spying for China
F.B.I. agents found top-secret documents on a device he brought back from Shanghai.
Why It Matters That Bill Gates Joined China’s Super App WeChat
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is the newest member of WeChat, China’s most popular messaging app.
China’s Controversial, Out-Sized Role in Africa’s Digital Revolution
Africa is home to one of the fastest growing technology markets in the world. In fact, more African households own a mobile phone...
After Years of Big 3 Dominance, China Is About to Get a Fourth Telco
In an unexpected move, CBN is issued a telecom operator license, allowing it to compete with China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom.
Chinese Telecoms Gear Maker ZTE Fighting U.S. Export Ban
The second-largest maker of telecoms gear in China is scrambling to get off a U.S. export blacklist that threatens to dry up supplies of critical components.
“The investigations are still in progress, and may result in...
China Aims to Build Its Own Secure Smartphones
State-owned and private tech firms team up to cut
China’s Controversial Technology Partnership with South Africa
The Chinese and South Africa governments have signed a pact, or a “plan of action,” where Beijing will provide a broad array of...
Qualcomm to Pay $975 Million to Resolve China Antitrust Dispute
Qualcomm said the agreement removes a major source of concern for its investor.
In China, Quantum Communications Comes of Age
This may be a quantum leap year for an initiative that accelerates data transfers close to the speed of light with no hacking threats through so-called quantum communications technology.
Within months, China plans to open the world's...
Qualcomm Nears $1 Bln Deal Resolving China Antitrust Dispute
The deal could end a 14-month government investigation into anti-competitive practices.
Internet Wrangling in Wuzhen
from Sinica PodcastKaiser Kuo hosts alone this week as we turn our attention to the World Internet Conference (English site) last week, when a...
Competitors Try Curbing China Mobile’s 4G Urge
The wireless Internet technology race is intensifying a longstanding rivalry between China’s largest mobile phone operator, China Mobile, and its smaller competitors China Telecom and China Unicom.
Since 2011, China Mobile customers in...
Tencent Lets WeChat’s Rapid Growth Do the Talking
Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s free messaging service, WeChat, has seen its popularity grow among both individual users and businesses, even amid a dispute with the Big Three telecom operators [China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom].
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Five Points on the Deeply Flawed U.S. Congress Huawei Report
Chinese telecomms firms painted as shady, but evidence to back up allegations is hidden in report's classified sections.
The Huawei Enigma
from Sinica PodcastIs there any other company that better captures the dual way China is perceived internationally than Huawei? As one of China’s few market-based telecommunications equipment providers, the company is in many ways a symbol of China’s high-tech,...
Inside Huawei, Chinese Tech Giant Rattling Nerves in D.C.
Huawei might make better, cheaper telecom gear than rivals. And it's come up with a new sleek handset to compete against the iPhone. But years of pressure from the federal government have largely kept Huawei on the fringes in the United States....
Huawei: The Company That Spooked the World
BANBURY, a little English town best known for a walk-on part in a nursery rhyme and as the eponymous origin of a fruitcake, is an unlikely fulcrum for the balance of power in the world of telecoms. But the “Cyber Security Evaluation Centre” set...
The People’s Republic of Rumor
from New York Review of BooksA group of people the other day were at the large shopping mall at a place called Shuangjing, just inside Beijing’s Third Ring Road, looking at their cell phones and comparing notes. “Don’t go to Sina Weibo—it’s too famous,” one person advised,...
China’s Telecommunications Revolution
China's telecommunications industry has seen revolutionary transformation and growth over the past three decades. Chinese Internet users number nearly 150 million, and the P.R.C. expects to quickly pass the U.S. in total numbers of connected citizens. The number of mobile and fixed-line telephone users soared from a mere 2 million in 1980 to a total of nearly 800 million in 2007. China has been the most successful developing nation in history for spreading telecommunications access at an unparalleled rapid pace.