Financial Times
By Joe Leahy in Mumbai and Kathrin Hille in Beijing
The Indian government is blocking purchases of telecoms equipment from Chinese vendors on national security grounds, ratcheting up trade tensions between Asia’s fastest-growing large economies.
The practice has prompted complaints from Beijing and is causing havoc for mobile operators in India, which need enormous amounts of equipment to sustain an industry that is adding 20m new users a month.
“Proposals for procurement of equipment from Chinese original equipment manufacturing vendors have not been recommended due to security concerns,” the Department of Telecommunications wrote this week in correspondence to the prime minister’s Office, seen by the Financial Times. “Therefore, the proposals from the service providers for purchase of Chinese equipment is turned down.”
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Huawei Technologies of China Opens First R&D Centre in Canada
Shenzhen, China-based Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., a provider of next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators, announced the official opening of its Ottawa R&D Centre. As the first Canadian R&D Centre for Huawei, the facility is designed to provide operators and partners with local access to Huawei’s industry solutions. The Ottawa R&D Centre is located in Kanata and will work on multiple strategic product initiatives in the wireline, wireless, optical and IP networking areas. To date, the R&D Centre has more than 70 employees. Huawei opened its first Canadian office in the spring of 2008 and provides telecom solutions to Bell Canada, TELUS and SaskTel.
Information summarized from: Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. Press Release
Huawei planning ‘significant’ Ottawa expansion
Huawei, China’s largest telecom gear manufacturer, quietly entered the Ottawa market in early 2009 after announcing it was interested in forging long-term partnerships with wireless communication technology companies, as well as universities and institutions engaged in advancing wireless communications research.
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