<p><pre><code> Huawei has recently focused on Europe, where it doubled its workforce.
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In related news: Huawei's Zurich offices where raided yesterday and nine people where arrested.<p>Allegedly they have flouted labor - and immigration laws. As in getting Chinese employees into Switzerland on tourist visas and flouting other immigration related and labor laws (missing work permits and such).
I figured that eventually people were going to just start saying "screw it, the US is just too hard" for commerce, travel, and expatriate employment.<p>This is the country where a <i>Russian</i> got arrested for <i>thought crime</i> when he entered the country to give a speech at a conference for a product he produced in his own country according to its laws(1). I'm surprised its taken this long.<p>(1) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._ElcomSoft_and_Sklyarov" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._ElcomSoft_and_...</a>
I think this is a real shame. Huawei makes the best combo of cheap/quality Android phones I've been able to get my hands on. I use the low-end ones in hacking projects almost every day.<p>Huawai isn't going anywhere, and this article also neglected to mention how popular the IDEOS is in Africa.
<a href="http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/111540-android-phone-huawei-ideos-africa" rel="nofollow">http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/111540-android-phone-huawei-...</a>
Huawei has repudiated such plans:<p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertolsen/2013/04/25/chinas-huawei-dispels-reports-the-telecom-plans-to-quit-u-s-market/" rel="nofollow">http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertolsen/2013/04/25/chinas-hu...</a>
Huawei would have to defeat the general notion that Americans have that anything made in China is a cheap piece of crap. Americans don't realize that everything is made in China, even though all their products say so. Most Americans think Made In America means quality and are blinded to the fact that other countries have other brands and different ways to live. Huawei would have been screwed in America, it just sounds like a brand that would be selling electronics at the Dollar General.
Hard to say if it is protectionism or there are legitimate concerns. Most smartphones and computers manufactured by companies like Apple, Dell, Lenovo have their factories in China. What's the guarantee that those devices are free from hardware hacking? The hardware is so complex nowadays that it is near impossible to detect if you have a chip or a circuit to do something malicious.
For more, the Scientific American article on hardware hacking here: <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-hacker-in-your-hardware" rel="nofollow">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-hacker-...</a>
There is a lot of insider talk in the telecom industry about Huawei being complicit in hacking of various competitors, including Nortel (who were hacked and for <i>four years</i> did not close the security hole)
Wait, how exactly were they legally barred from setting up shop here? Is it because they were cited as supporting Chinese espionage or whatever not too long ago?
An interesting guess: What if one day the government of China bans Apple, Android, Windows, Cisco, IBM and other USA brands for political or backdoor concerns?
Yay to my 60 euros, 5 days battery life, android 2.2 huawei phone !<p>Thanks china ! Because who really believes you can have everybody have their ferrari...
Huawei's chairwoman, Sun Yafang, worked for Chinese intelligence before joining Huawei.<p>Source(s):<p><a href="http://jeffreycarr.blogspot.com/2011/10/huaweis-chairwoman-worked-for-chinese.html" rel="nofollow">http://jeffreycarr.blogspot.com/2011/10/huaweis-chairwoman-w...</a><p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fSL5mPB_18Q/TphTDDqd2OI/AAAAAAAAAIo/SIiIWNd5N5o/s1600/Sun+YaFang.png" rel="nofollow">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fSL5mPB_18Q/TphTDDqd2OI/AAAAAAAAAI...</a><p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/11/chinese-telecom-firm-tied-to-spy-ministry/print/" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/11/chinese-tele...</a><p><a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/osc/huawei.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/osc/huawei.pdf</a>