China Unicom and other large Chinese telcos are proudly advertising their successes in private 5G, and rightfully so. The numbers stack up beautifully in their financial reports, but do we see the same opportunity in plans to sell spectrum to Chinese companies? Last week, China Unicom boasted of a huge jump in the deployment of private 5G networks, up 138% to the end of October. This amounts to a total of 7,441 networks. China Unicom expects the trend to continue, with an expectation of double-digit profit growth this year based on booming private 5G and cloud services. China Unicom, the third largest Chinese telco by subscriptions, said that the number of customers served by 5G virtual private networks exceeded 5,800…