Normal for firms to vote for technical standards they consider in own interests

ON WEDNESDAY, Lenovo published an open letter addressed to its employees calling on them "to win the battle for Lenovo's honor". Beijing News comments:

The letter came because the company has been heavily criticized on social media because two years ago, 3GPP, the telecommunications industry authority, organized a vote on the 5G standards and Lenovo voted for Qualcomm's proposal instead of Huawei's in the first round of voting.

As the letter pointed out, these were purely technical discussions. And while it initially voted in line with the technology and patent reserves it already had, in the second round it voted in consideration of the overall development of the industry in China.