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 box for video services. The new hardware is being used by Unicom in regions where it is cost-prohibitive to connect homes with fiber – chiefly in coastal and mountainous markets. There is limited detail about the technology or commercial arrangement. Support for AVS2 is mentioned, meaning that this should support the Chinese implementation of UHD. The Audio Video Coding Standard (AVS) has some international ambitions, backed by Huawei, TCL and Skyworth, but is mainly being adopted in China. A “high performance chip” is as much detail we get about the guts of the…