Huawei’s London Underground Bid Blocked, Chinese Reactions

From NetEase:

Huawei’s 500 million yuan Olympics gift to London rejected by the British

Summary: Recently, Huawei bid 50 million GPB (over 500 million RMB) to provide mobile phone network coverage for the London Underground metro [The Tube?] as a congratulatory gift for [London as host to] the Olympics. But the British government has rejected this large gift over national security reasons. Previously, Huawei was interested in purchasing American company 3Leaf, but the Americans rejected the offer using the same reason. Huawei in recent years have sought to expand its European and American markets, but [its efforts] have been frequently blocked.

Comments from NetEase:

网易河北省保定市网友:

Taking the blood and sweat money scraped from tightening the belts of your compatriots [Chinese] to give as a gift to pot-bellied Englishmen, ridiculous! Even they feel embarrassed—-I truly feel ashamed that our motherland has this kind of company.

网易山东省青岛市网友:

“Hot face, cold butt” [Chinese idiom that means treating someone else nicely only to be spurned].

网易北京市网友:

500 million and they don’t want it, would’ve been better to donate it to poverty-stricken mountain areas to improve the lives of the ordinary common people!

网易英国网友:

Look at what our own telecommunications network is like within our country! [If we] have money to give to others, it would be better spent improving ourselves [China] first.

网易天津市网友:

Their gift ten years ago in Morocco was also rejected.

网易荷兰网友:

Looks like the British aren’t stupid either.

网易上海市网友:

When have you ever seen the poor give the rich money in this world?

网易四川省成都市网友:

Sigh, netizens who who aren’t in this industry should keep quiet, your “anger” will only make you guys look even more naive and ignorant!

Huawei is giving 50 million pounds worth of equipment, okay? And it is not as if they are really giving it for free! Abroad is not like in China where mobile phones are sold. The mobile phones are given by the telecommunications companies, and the telecommunications companies all want the telecommunications equipment suppliers to customize the mobile phones, and this means that Huawei’s terminal in England will increase a lot of share every year in the future; Moreover, when it is time to upgrade the telecommunications equipment, the products of the previous telecommunications equipment supplier is always considered, because this way is easier to upgrade and ensure compatibility.

Next, haven’t Huawei, ZTE, etc. contributed plenty to the spread of China’s telecommunications industry?

In the 80s and 90s, all of China’s telecommunications equipment were from foreign countries, the prices were all very expensive. You guys should all remember how niubi it was just to have a telephone installed. That telephones are now so commonplace is completely inseparable from the efforts of the “huge China” four companies [Great Dragon, Datang, ZTE, and Huawei]!

网易广东省东莞市网友:

I really didn’t think there would be so many people criticizing/cursing Huawei in the comments! I won’t bother with explaining how much Huawei has contribute [to China]. As a company, sponsoring the Olympics, using such a compelling sales tactic, and yet there are so many people here talking shit about it!

According to your guys’ logic, Coca-Cola is the biggest SB company, because the money it has spent on competition sponsorships over the years is probably in the billions.

Huawei now wants to take 500 million [RMB] and deploy an underground network for London for free, but could future maintenance and upgrades be free? What is more important is getting into this market, and future network interlinking, deployments, and updates, how big of a market will that be? But only by first getting will the opportunities for getting future orders be bigger.

But unfortunately they weren’t able to get [the deal], and I thought there would be many who would feel sorry for Huawei, who would also resent the West for how they are shutting us out. Unfortunate, I haven’t seen any!

网易陕西省西安市网友:

Ding [the above translated commenter], I really don’t know what those criticizing Huawei are thinking, seeing this news and coming to criticize. It wouldn’t be an issue if you were criticizing a monopolizing state-owned enterprise, but as for companies like Huawei and ZTE, you guys probably should first learn more about them before commenting, okay?

网易福建省福州市网友:

Hehe, I laugh, brother [referring to self] is someone in the industry. What kind of background Huawei has you can go online and investigate, investigate its previous incarnation, and now even if Europe and America were to allow it to participate in the project and at the same time it is a 100% loss business, Huawei would still happily go do it! Know why? Those in this industry all know Huawei’s “background”…is what kind of character! Did you guys really think Huawei is just a simple private enterprise/company?

网易广东省深圳市宝安区网友:

Let me make a comment!
Let me tell you, behind Huawei is the National Security Bureau! [Which] infiltrates abroad and plants spies!

网易辽宁省抚顺市网友:

If this were our country, we would have been falling over ourselves in thanks.

网易广东省东莞市网友:

Ding, in the past it was always foreigners in China making money, now we can leave the country to earn other people’s money.

网易广东省深圳市网友:

Huawei must use coverage to get market share from its competitors, but others aren’t idiots and won’t play with you. This is the essence of the matter, yet why do some people don’t see it, and are starting to comment about Huawei’s background.

网易江苏省网友:

Foreigners earn the entire world’s money and gives its own people preferential [prices/terms]…while us Chinese people earn our own people’s money to give the world’s people preferential [prices/terms] (except our own country’s people).

网易广西南宁市网友:

A bunch of morons, you guys don’t know who is behind a wu mao company [the Chinese government]???

Hot faces. Personals @ chinaSMACK.