At an LTE event last year, eMobile president and COO Eric Gan raised a few eyebrows by insisting that LTE would challenge fixed-broadband to the point of cannibalizing FTTH.
Cellcos in Hong Kong aren’t quite taking the argument that far but are definitely betting on 3.5G as a DSL substitute, even as the leading fixed-broadband players start moving to fiber.
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Instead KDDI’s ham-fisted efforts to acquire Japan’s largest cable company have left market-watchers slack-jawed.
China Unicom CEO Chang Xiaobing told the Wall Street Journal that the firm is working with Apple to add Wi-Fi functionality to its iPhones in China. He also said current iPhone owners – whose device
MIIT deputy chief Miao Wei says the ministry has had no contact with Google over its plans to exit the market or regarding the heavy cyber-attacks the company said it had sustained, sina.com reported.
This week Apple took aim at HTC, Microsoft fired at Google and Google took another shot at China.
In a move widely seen as a warning to rivals such as Google and Microsoft, Apple accused Taiwan OEM HTC of stealing its touchscreen, graphical interface and other tech