This lol.
Sometime I think it's gov endorsed?

That was based on bidding. In reality we are using mostly Chine products for networking. The main reason is they are much cheaper. No learning curve because the interface is more or less copy Cisco. 

That what my reply was related to. The West get the contract as result of bidding not because we avoid Huawei to please the West.

Hmmmm....i find that hard to believe and im not a wumao

heck i have no love lost for Huawei. I worked for European vendor(s) that had to look over our shoulder constantly as Huawei swapped most of us in the late 2000s into the 2010s. They literally threatening my ricebowl kek

But huawei wont be more expensive than Europeans much less E/// unless E/// was very desperate and Huawei didnt have a chance to counter bid

Or was it an apple to apple comparison. The final shortlist iirc was E///, Nokia, and other transmission/transport and core networking players like Cisco, FibreHome and NEC etc. E/// and Nokia over the years have streamlined their portfolio only to offer mobile networks, they have divested their other technology areas and have to rely on the above vendors for an end to end solution.

Huawei does not need to leverage on the above except possibly Cisco for some key areas in their core (they might actually not also seeing how they grow). They have solutions end to end and can use most if not all inhouse Huawei equipment. If huawei was benchmarked against E/// and Nokia based solely on price and not the mobile portion its not a fair comparison. They are supplying more than the other 2

Again i have to reitirate , i'm not a wumao or a huawei apologist kek. Just that Huawei from experience dont come more expensive most days. Even at their (European vendors that is) most desperate, Huawei can dangle the free swaps to new  2G and 3G  equipment to local operators to trump European vendors. They can easily redeploy them at less developed countries in separate commercial deals. Europeans never were as versatile as them in negotiations