[LINK] What's Behind the Huawei Fracas

[Fernando Cassia]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:52,  <stephen at melbpc.org.au> wrote:
>  Putting aside corruption, Chinese ICT
> vendors are difficult to beat on price and quality, and therefore
> often win government procurement tenders.  However, companies that
> buy Chinese equipment often find that they end up paying the piper
> later due to poor after-sales service.  End summary.

Back in 2001 when one got ADSL service down here, you either got an
Alcatel or a Cisco DSL "modem/router". Nowadays, it´s all Huawei and
ZTE .

The Europeans and Americans simply cannot compete on price. And the
Europeans were the masters of corruption and bribing (allegedly) to
get purchase orders, as they weren´t subject to the Foreign Corporate
Practices Act or whatever it is called now, as American firms do.

Alcatel, Cisco and ZTE all offer the same level of non-support when it
comes to end-user hardware, IMHO. (Cisco EOL´d the venerable Cisco 677
adsl modem one and a half years after I got DSL service).

Just my $0.02
FC

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