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“They spent all their resources stealing technology,” said Robert Read, a former contract engineer from 2002 to 2003 in #Huawei’s Sweden office. “You’d steal a motherboard and bring it back and they’d reverse-engineer it.”wsj.com/articles/huawe…
"Theft & industrial espionage R relatively common in global tech industry & Huawei isn’t sole co. to face accusatns of stealing foreign intellectual property. What set Huawei apart was flagrancy of its plagiarism.They made verbatim copies of whole portions of Cisco’s user manuals
"Cisco General Counsel Mark Chandler flew to Shenzhen to confront Mr. Ren w/ evidence of Huawei’s theft, which included typos from Cisco’s manuals that also appeared in Huawei’s. Mr. Ren listened impassively and gave a one-word response: “Coincidence.”
Whenever Ericsson announced layoffs Huawei’s executives handed him bundle of money & dispatched him to bar near Kista metro to buy rounds for laid-off tech talent.Huawei set up research station in Lund in 2010-few months after Sony Ericsson announcd it would lay off 450 employees
While US firms doing business w/ Chinese companies were concerned about tech theft, potential riches persuaded many to forgo making official complaints about commercial secrets theft, even though many privately sought help from US officials.
Sweden keeps popping up in this story from @WSJ: "Scientists including Emil Björnson, an engineering professor at Sweden’s Linköping University, say Mr. Barker’s signal-tilting epiphany—now Huawei’s—represents a building block of technology that forms signals in 5G networks."
@WSJ Execs at US telecom hardware maker Tekelec Inc told Obama admin officials that a Brazilian customer was approachd by Huawei w/ an unusual offer:get free Huawei equipmnt in exchange for turning over Tekelec gear.Analysts believe Huawei intended to reverse-engineer Tekelec products
@WSJ Current & former Huawei employees say co. places intense pressure on delivering results. Ren posts exhortations that likens Huawei’s global mission to a military campaign."Our carrier network biz will be fighting a ferocious war in next 10 yrs.We must be psychologically prepared”
