"It gives Huawei yet another commercial foot in the door in Western markets from which it should be able to build to secure further contracts. Huawei is already succeeding at overcoming the cultural issues faced by its transition from a Chinese to a global company and it has already won widespread deals with mobile network operators."

Thuston added the suspicion that Huawei's award of large UK contracts masks a security threat is overstated.

"While the threat of cybersecurity is usually underestimated, it would be extremely difficult for a cybersecurity attack to be launched using just one vendor's equipment. Instead, successful cybersecurity attacks require a co-ordinated multi-faceted assault on UK critical national infrastructure."

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"Finally there is progress on these much-delayed plans to mobile-enable the London Underground. The project has been delayed for years because of revenue sharing, infrastructure sharing and installation challenges. Most of those challenges remain, and we expect this project will continue to prove troublesome. It is unlikely that the underground portions of the mobile network will all be fully operational by 2012.