Huawei says it is an employee-owned company and that no government has ever asked it to spy on or sabotage another country. Now that just about everyone has a cellphone, each operator is looking for new ways to grow. Illustration: Shaumbe Wright/WSJMany European wireless carriers, including British-based Vodafone Group PLC, praise Huawei’s equipment, saying it is often cheaper and more advanced that those of its competitors. “It’s barely a foreign company now, but politics and logic aren’t often friends,” said Stacy Rasgon, a Bernstein Research analyst. “I’m just not convinced that Qualcomm’s going to slash and burn the 5G roadmap and leave it open to Huawei” if Broadcom buys it.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 07, 2018 19:27 UTC