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"Last month Creative, and its subsidiary firm QMax,\u00A0sued Huawei for $9.3 million alleging that the firm was responsible for the failure of a WiMAX network in Singapore. Today, Huawei is reported to have turned the tables and countersued over the now closed service, according to Straits Times.\r\n\r\nThe Chinese firm is claiming that is is owed $8.23 million in unpaid goods and services, that's in addition to compensation for the 'wrongful' termination of its contract, a figure that is yet to be calculated.\r\n\r\nCreative launched the WiMAX network, under the QMax banner, in 2008 but the QMax service was shuttered in December last year.\r\n\r\nCreative\u2019s most recent financial statements\u00A0[PDF] cite the failure to meet network performance requirements as to blame. While it notes that there will be legal action, the document doesn\u2019t name Huawei directly or provide further details:\r\nAt the end of the second quarter of FY2012, QMax suspended the wireless broadband project as the vendor for the\u00A0equipment has failed to deliver on the key network performance requirements set out in the relevant supply contract.\r\n\r\n[Creative] and QMax have given notice to the vendor to terminate or rescind the supply contract on the grounds of\u00A0material breach of the contract and/or misrepresentations by the vendor.\r\n\r\nThe Company and QMax have also recently initiated legal proceedings against the vendor to recover damages and all losses suffered in relation to the wireless broadband project, after discussions with the vendor failed to reach a satisfactory conclusion.\r\nHuawei\u2019s telecom equipment business has seen significant amounts of controversy for its dealings in the Middle East, among other markets. A report published last year accused the company of\u00A0knowingly assisting the Iranian government\u00A0in tracking its citizens, a claim that\u00A0the company strongly denies.\r\n\r\nThe report was enough to concern the US government however, and it\u00A0launched an inquiry\u00A0into possible security threats posed by Huawei and fellow Chinese firm ZTE, whose US telecom businesses have grown significantly there in recent times.\r\n\r\nWe've reached out to Huawei for clarification and will update this post with any comment that we are given."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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