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When Telenor decided to upgrade its mobile phone network in Norway, the job drew bids from the companies that had built its original grid: Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks.

Instead, Telenor this month chose Huawei Technologies, a Chinese equipment maker, to build its ultrafast network based on a technology called LTE, or Long Term Evolution.

To read this report in The New York Times in full, see: www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/technology/companies/30iht-telecom.html