Chinese mobile operators may have the largest WiFi hotspot deployments in the world, but these have failed to deliver return on investment. In July 2014, China Mobile said it would stop rolling out WiFi and redirect the funds to accelerated TD-LTE expansion, Now, according to the country’s Ministry of Industry and IT (MIIT), the three MNOs have decommissioned 87,000 WiFi access points this year. That still leaves almost 6m in operation, more than the total of cellular base stations, but the latter is growing as the carriers expand 3G and LTE, and densify their networks. They added 680,000 base stations in the first nine months of 2015, according to the Ministry, while further WiFi shrinkage is on the cards. China…