The Improbable Rise of Huawei

How did a private Chinese firm come to dominate the world’s most important emerging technology?

BY KEITH JOHNSON, ELIAS GROLL-APRIL 3, 2019, 1:00 PM

A decade ago, in 2009, the Swedish phone giant Teliasonera set out to build one of the world’s first fourth-generation wireless networks in some of Scandinavia’s most important—and technologically savviest—cities. For Oslo, Norway, Teliasonera made an audacious and unexpected choice of who would build it: Huawei, a Chinese company with little presence outside China and some other developing markets.

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