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Huawei: China’s Telco Titan Grows

Via Red Herring.

At first blush, Huawei Technologies, China’s leading networking and telecommunications equipment vendor, looks an awful lot like the motherland in miniature.

Company and country alike are transforming the global competitive landscape with the rock-bottom prices their cheap, seemingly inexhaustible talent pools make possible. Both invest in R&D, aiming to move beyond the copy model. Both engender admiration and distrust. And just as Beijing rattles Washington with aggressive deal-making for energy and resources, Huawei rattles Cisco with its headlong drive into global data communications markets.

Last, both country and company are dogged by reputations for dealing with unsavory regimes, secrecy, and playing fast and loose with other people’s intellectual property (IP).

posted by Fergie @ 2/18/2006 06:04:00 PM