China Telecom
China Telecom uses local chips in LLMs amid US restrictions
China Telecom’s unnamed model has a striking 1 trillion parameters, while its TeleChat2-115B contains over 100 billion.
Grace Priscilla Teo · · 1 min read
6G can be the new frontier if we can work out how to use it
Governments and industry have pledged billions of dollars to develop 6G, but experts can’t agree when it’ll begin to make an impact on our lives.
Albert Han · · 4 min read
Chinese consumers to account for one-third of global 5G phones by 2023, says research firm
The research agency also expects that 5G-enabled handsets will reach nearly 800 million units by 2023, accounting for 51.4% of all smartphone shipments.
Li Tao · · 3 min read
Hey, digital nomads: China opens internet gateway to Nepal through the Himalayas
A cable route through the Himalayas is set to provide unprecedented new levels of connectivity in Nepal. It’s also a transit route between India and China.
Sumit Chakraberty · · 3 min read
China has made an incredibly quick switch from 3G to 4G
When you’re at “peak smartphone,” everyone is keen to get faster mobile internet.
Steven Millward · · 2 min readIf China Telecom is throttling access to international websites, it’s bad news for startups
China Telecom connections to international sites have slowed to a glacial pace. Is this really a technical problem, or is Telecom pushing users towards a higher service tier?
C. Custer · · 3 min readAfter reports of sex-trading and corruption, China Unicom promises reforms
Accused of pretty serious corruption, China Unicom has promised reforms. But this could be the tip of the iceberg for China’s state-run telecoms.
C. Custer · · 2 min readChina accused of wiretapping Apple iCloud data (UPDATED)
Days after the iPhone 6 launch in China, GreatFire.org reports Chinese authorities are staging a MITM attack on Apple’s cloud storage service, iCloud.
Paul Bischoff · · 3 min readQueues stretch across China at midnight as iPhone 6 launches
Queues formed outside many stores across China before today’s launch of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus on all three carriers.
Steven Millward · · 3 min readChina preorders 2 million new iPhones in six hours
If you were wondering whether China was interested in Apple’s new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models, the answer is a definite yes. Following the devices getting an official
C. Custer · · 1 min read