Tencent helps Chinese students skip prohibitively low speeds for school websites overseas – TechCrunch
Tencent helps Chinese students skip prohibitively low speeds for school websites overseas Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students enrolled in overseas schools are stranded as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt life and airlines worldwide. Learning at home in China, they all face one challenge: Their school websites and other academic resources load excruciatingly slowly because all web traffic has to pass through the country’s censorship apparatus known as the “great firewall.” Spotting a business opportunity, Alibaba’s cloud unit worked on connecting students in China to th...
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