ZTE is claiming a world first, supplying China Unicom with a single box to provide customers with 5G-based in-home broadband, a WiFi access point, and a set top for video services. The new hardware is being used by China Unicom in regions where it is cost-prohibitive to connect homes with fiber – chiefly in coastal and mountainous markets. Currently, if we are to believe the collective 5G hype, then nearly all set tops are targets for such converged products. However, the time when we don’t have to rely on fixed-line networks, and can shift instead to wireless access like 5G, seems decades away – meaning that while this might be a world-first, this only the beginning of a very long…