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China’s EV boom fuels 90% chip import reliance
This reliance on imported chips has grown more urgent due to rising geopolitical tensions with the US.
Grace Priscilla Teo · · 1 min read
China opens telecom, data center market to foreign players
The pilot program is being launched in Beijing, Shanghai, Hainan, and Shenzhen, according to China’s Xinhua news agency.
Grace Priscilla Teo · · 1 min read
China Roundup: JD Logistics invests $155m to halve carbon emissions, and more
Also, China may ask Tencent, ByteDance to open content to search, and Sequoia leads a US$78 million round in healthtech firm MagAssisst, among others.
Roehl Niño Bautista · · 2 min read
China to start seriously enforcing real-name mobile registration, government claims
China’s government has been saying it’s getting serious about real-name mobile registration for years. But could this latest campaign actually be the one?a
C. Custer · · 2 min read
Failed experiment: two years in, none of China’s new telcos makes money
Not even Xiaomi and Alibaba can spur interest in China’s new mobile internet and calling services.
C. Custer · · 4 min readAfter years of big 3 dominance, China is about to get a fourth telco
China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile, are about to get a competitor. But it’s not what you might think.
C. Custer · · 3 min readChina will get 5G in 2020, say the people who delayed China’s 4G launch
MIIT has decreed that China isn’t getting commercial 5G service until 2020.
C. Custer · · 2 min readChina sold almost 500m smartphones in 2015, and other crazy data
China’s MIIT has just released a bunch of data on China’s 2015, and as usual the numbers are shockingly huge.
C. Custer · · 2 min readChina has used 49.3 million GB of mobile data in the week since lunar new year
Over the Spring Festival break, China has consumed a massive heaping of mobile data.
C. Custer · · 2 min readEveryone in China loves their smartphones, but people are using surprisingly little data each month
New figures from China’s tech ministry, MIIT, shows that mobile users in China now consume an average of 200MB of data each month.
Steven Millward · · 2 min read