China’s Huawei, Philippine telco join forces in 5G deal


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 16 Feb 2017

Chinese electronics giant Huawei is joining forces with the Philippines' largest telco in the hopes of rolling out a 5G wireless network in the Asian archipelago by 2020, the Filipino company said. 

Filipinos are among the world's most active Internet users, but the country also has one of the slowest average connection speeds. 

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