When did Cricket Wireless become mid-tier telecoms? It is hte first time I have heard of the company. Check this out. U.S. Congress Flags China's Huawei, ZTE As Security Threats:http://www.forbes.com/sites/simonmontlake/2012/10/08/u-s-con...
Cisco paid the lobbyists in DC very well.
I can come up with lots of reasons you haven't heard of them: maybe you're not from a large or mid-size city, maybe you intentionally avoid billboards, television, radio, and print advertisements, maybe you don't live in the U.S.; the list goes on. But this is a distraction.
Do you or don't you concede that the significant sales of products contradicts your claim that they are shut out of the market?
> Cisco paid the lobbyists in DC very well.
This is a non-sequitur and sensational flame bait.
$500M in revenue is a small drop in the ocean. Cisco reported $49.2B revenue in 2015 alone. Huawei reported $60.1B in 2015. Apple reported $16B in one quarter of 2014 in greater China alone. Given Huawei's strength in products and advantages in pricing, they should decimate Cisco righteously, if not the barrier stood up by the US government.
Huawei is competing with Cisco domestically (in China) as well. Cisco reported earnings of $1.6B in the China-Japan segment in Q3 [1]. Cisco still sells network equipment to ISPs and telecoms in China. There is no U.S. bogeyman in either country.
I am interested to hear your agenda. Clearly you don't work for Huawei, otherwise you would be better informed. Your insistence of this despite evidence to the contrary is backed by a personal belief. I'm interested in hearing your world view and want to know what that belief is.
I am all in for free trade. US government and media love to bash China. When you look in the mirror, US government adopts protectionism yourself just like other countries do. You think you hold the high moral ground while you are just as dirty. It's not backed by my personal belief. Maybe you live on Mars. There is plenty of evidence there. Go take a look at NSA's PRISM program, a mass surveillance program. Go check the news on US government spying on German Chancellor and your own people. Go ask Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.
From your comment history it appears you are from China. Your English is good. Thanks for coming to comment here. I wouldn't want Hacker News to be an echo chamber of Bay Area startup enthusiasts. I want you to continue to comment here. You can advance Chinese interests without being adversarial and accusatory.
However, you don't have a complete picture. True, the U.S. and other countries have gone to the WTO several times to protest dumping and other trade issues. Dumping is the WTO term for selling goods internationally far below cost in an effort to drive local competition out of business. And yes, the U.S. and other countries (India, Australia, etc.) have blocked Huawei's legitimate ventures in telecommunications critical infrastructure.
This isn't anywhere close to the same extent that the Chinese government has blocked international competition within its borders. The Chinese government routinely blocks foreign firms from competing through regulation or outright blocking of internet sites. Many of these sites do not pose a cultural or dissident risk to the Chinese Communist Party.
I'm not making the claim this is evil or wrong. Protectionism is one tactic that nations may use. The United States used a vigorous protective tariff for its first 200 years.
The naive world view that the United States' protectionism is propping up its companies is not accurate. Nor is the view that Tencent and Baidu would disappear without Chinese government protective assistance.
I would love to address the other concerns you have brought up but the scope of this comment thread is trade. I'm not going to let it be completely derailed.
