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Some additional information:

[quote=chrishung,Mar 15 2009, 10:16 PM]
1. "Huawei doesn't get government support"

Truth: Huawei is partly own by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a government institute. Huawei's chairman is currently a member of the Communist Party of China. As a "national champion" company Huawei has been getting tax break and incentives from the government of China.
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True.Huawei does not have access to direct state funds from the PRC unlike ZTE.
ZTE is more of China's brainchild telco equipment company while Huawei is more of China's favourite homegrown brand.

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2. "Huawei is losing ground to the big boys"

Truth: Did you know that Huawei used to be a supplier for Motorola? Now they're kicking Moto's ass. They're a supplier turn competitor company.
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That's used to be. Today's they are Europe's largest supplier of the latest telecom equipments. The Scandinavian countries are buying their HSPA and LTE 4G equipments while dumping their own homegrown brands such as Ericsson, Nokia-Siemens and Alcalu. They managed to deliver the right formula.

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3. "I heard that Huawei's R&D hasn't come up with any new products and they're losing"

Truth: Huawei is the top patent applicant in China and the fourth in the world in 2007 according to WIPO PCT after Matsushita, Phillips and Siemens.
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In 2008, they emerged no. 1 in the world.
Huawei Became Top International Patent Seeker in 2008
www.cellular-news.com/story/35717.php

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4. "Huawei lost the top spot for TD-SCDMA contract in China"

Truth: Actually this is true. ZTE is tops in China right now for 3G equipment. But the difference in their market share is like....1%.
FYI, Huawei won the most 3G network contact GLOBALLY in 2008, not just from developing countries but also from reputable companies like BT, Vodafone and T-Mobile . Over half of Huawei's revenue is derived from overseas. So look at the big picture
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Huawei has a regional HQ based here in Malaysia while ZTE has no interest for that.
ZTE has one of the most advanced mobile technologies currently in research but Malaysia will never have the sophisticated money/market to deploy them.Same too for 3rd world countries like India, and Vietnam. They are not ready for that yet so ZTE does not see importance in these markets.

Additional news:

India blocked Chinese telco equipment vendors from tendering in BSNL
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BSNL has been told by India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) that it must test Huawei equipment for backdoors and malware before deploying it in its mobile network.

BSNL is also forbidden from deploying Huawei gear in India’s northern states, adjacent to sensitive borders with China, Myanmar, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, the Economic Times reported.

Security fears have threatened to derail Huawei’s bid for one of the biggest mobile equipment deals of the year.

The Chinese vendor has been shortlisted with Ericsson to share $6 billion in GSM expansion contracts from BSNL.

The Economic Times said that a government security committee had given BSNL the all-clear to award contracts to Huawei, but only if it vetted the network for vulnerabilities.

Vendors routinely provide legitimate backdoors into networks to enable remote diagnostics, but BSNL has been told this is off-limits for Huawei.

The DoT has also told BSNL that it Huawei must complete all network and maintenance contracts within two years.

The restrictions, if confirmed, could seriously constrain Huawei’s growth in one of the world’s biggest markets. The red tape could deter operators seeking to roll out quickly, while the rules appear to put Huawei’s access to the network outsourcing business out of reach.

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http://www.telecomasia.net/article.php?typ...d_article=13576

The indians are paranoid about Chinese companies. Even though unofficially Huawei will be given a just a small share of the market which is South India because they can't totally neglect their influence, that's already the fullstop.India will not award future contracts to Chinese vendors anymore.

Why can't the Northern states in India getting Chinese equipments? India is scared of China's presence in those insurgent states.
Same thing is also happening to Maxis which awards its northern Malaysia equipment tenders only to Ericsson and Nokia-Siemens Network.

Huawei is not concerned about it because their WCDMA/HSPA local market alone in China together with ZTE accounts for more than 80% of the market share for tenders.
Poor European vendors only get to fight each other out with less than 15% of the overall tenders aka the leftovers.

Huawei also commands a big market pan Europe, Australia, Pakistan and South America.

It'll be a very big turn off to the interviewer.
Seriously. Imagine yourself attending meetings with everyone discussing in Mandarin and you're all lost.
The director will tell you openly about this but please do not let this deter you from trying out.

They might hire you if you have an advantage or know something which others don't. Just that you'll have a hard time communicating with your colleagues later on. Have you thought how you're going to work in such environment?