
Robert Clark
Contributing Editor at LightReading
I cover Asian tech, telecom and innovation at my Electric Speech blog. I also write about Asian telecom for Light Reading.
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lightreading.com | Robert Clark
With China's tech sector still dealing with the fallout from the shock new restrictions on Nvidia chips, Huawei is pitching a new cloud architecture that it says offers comparable performance. A Huawei Vice President Zhang Xiuzheng told a launch event last week the company expected to deploy "tens of thousands" Huawei Cloud CloudMatrix 384 super nodes in the first half of this year.
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cyberera.com.ng | Robert Clark
By Robert Clark, Contributing EditorThe normally secretive China Mobile has given the world a glimpse of its 6G research work and vision. The world’s biggest telco by subs recently opened one of its 6G labs to a local reporter, while also setting out its expectations for the new technology in papers filed with the 3GPP. By operator standards it has a hefty R&D budget, spending 34 billion Chinese yuan (US$4.7 billion) last year to support a research team of 59,000.
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lightreading.com | Robert Clark
Chinese officials have copped to the Volt Typhoon hacks that have breached a swathe of US critical infrastructure over the past four years. At a meeting with Biden Administration officials in Geneva in December, the Chinese officials said they had carried out the hacks because of US support for Taiwan, Wall Street Journal has reported.
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lightreading.com | Robert Clark
If there's a group of telcos in the sweet spot, it's the small players making gains against larger competitors. That's the story for Aussie Broadband, Australia's fourth largest retail ISP, which is racking up some enviable growth numbers, with revenue up 51% CAGR and EBITDA 150% in the last four years. Now it has set out some targets for the next three years – topline revenue up 60%, NBN market share to grow by three points and mobile connections to double.
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2 weeks ago |
lightreading.com | Robert Clark
China Mobile's months-long tilt at Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) has finally made a breakthrough, leaving a rival bidder stuck at the start line. The state-owned giant has struck a deal to buy Cayman Islands-registered TPG Wireman's stake for 1.2 billion Hong Kong dollars (US$154 million), giving it 15.5% of the firm, HKBN said in a stock exchange filing Wednesday. The transaction is in two parts.
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