‘Tron’ is a cool, if slightly scary, name for a video-game console. It is also a 1982 Disney film about being trapped in a virtual world. This has not stopped Huawei from launching a gaming device by that name in China, its home market, in 2014. Telecoms equipment is, however, a much larger business for this ambitious, unlisted, employee-owned company, founded by an ex-military engineer. Investors in the sector’s other big players are, increasingly, trapped in Huawei’s world.
對一款視頻游戲機而言,“TRON”是個很酷(也許還有點嚇人)的名字。它還是一部1982年拍攝的迪斯尼(Disney)電影的名字——這部電影中的主人公陷于一個虛擬世界而無法脫身。但這并沒有阻止華為(Huawei)在2014年于中國國內市場推出了以這個名字命名的游戲設備。然而,對于這家由前軍隊工程師創立、員工持股、雄心勃勃的未上市公司來說,電信設備是一項規模大得多的業務,電信行業中其他大公司的投資者們,正越來越多地陷入了這個由華為主導的世界。