WSJ: China's Huawei Gains US Traction Despite Spying Worry

Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. has given small U.S. carriers providing telephone and wireless service a much-needed equipment option in a narrowing field — despite past U.S. efforts to shut it out, The Wall Street Journal reported.

According to the Journal, Union Wireless of Mountain View, Wyoming — with 50,000 customers in five Western states — turned to Huawei four years ago after its previous equipment vendor fell behind schedule on a critical network upgrade.

Huawei "worries about getting the problem fixed first and then worries about getting paid," Union Wireless' customer relations officer Brian Woody told the Journal. "We've had many vendors over the years. Huawei has treated us better than anybody."

Yet Huawei appeared shut out of the United States six years ago after congressional investigators determined its equipment could be used for spying or crippling the U.S. telecommunications network, the Journal reported.

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