House of Huawei by Eva Dou review – bad connection

A fascinating insight into a Chinese telecoms giant and its detractors

Huawei is not exactly ahousehold name. If you've heard of it, you either follow the smartphone market closely - itisthe main China-based manufacturerof high-end phones - or else consume a lot of news, because the company isat the centre of an ongoing US-China trade war.

But this enormous business is one of the world's biggest producers of behind-the-scenes equipment that enables fibre broadband, 4G and 5G phone networks. Its hardware is insidecommunications systems acrosstheworld.