Huawei announced the signing of a MoU for an Operations Support System Interoperability Initiative (OSSii) along Ericsson with and Nokia Siemens Networks. The OSSii aims to simplify interoperability between OSS systems in a multi-vendor environment. The initiative will provide easy access to interfaces that earlier were subject to restricted use, and will enable interoperability testing services to a wider community. The parties' general guiding principles for the OSSii are openness, fairness, reasonableness and non-discriminatory treatment. Industrywide interoperability between different vendor OSS systems will reduce OSS integration costs, simplify overall network management, and enable shorter time-to-market for new services. By enabling the implementation of 'up-front' multi-vendor OSS interoperability, OSSii will also target the promotion of healthy, win-win competition for network-level OSS systems. While all three initiating OSSii companies have agreed to cross-license their OSS interfaces for multi-vendor network management, cross-licensing and interoperability testing opportunities will also be offered for third-party OSS vendors and other network equipment providers.

Marathon Patent Group, Inc. announced that its subsidiary Relay IP has filed patent infringement lawsuits in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware against Sprint Nextel Corporation, Juniper Networks, Cisco Systems, Bloomberg L.P., Hitachi Cable America, D-Link Corporation, Avaya, Hewlett-Packard Company, Enterasys Networks, Extreme Networks, TIBCO Software, BT Group, SAVVIS Inc., Zhone Technologies, Huawei Technologies, Allied Telesis, and Adtran (the "Defendants"). Relay is asserting infringement related to U.S. Patent number 5,331,637, entitled Multicast Routing Using Core Based Trees. The lawsuit alleges that the Defendants have infringed, and continue to infringe, the claims of the patent in suit by using the accused IP Multicast systems and methods covered by the claims of the Relay patent.

Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd. intends to pursue acquisitions. The company has no intentions of listing in the future, which indicates that the company is not planning to pursue large mergers and acquisitions due to financial pressure, according to Eric Xu, Executive Vice-President of Huawei. "However, we do not rule out the possibility of buying smaller companies for technologies, or for markets, which will help improve our competitiveness," he said. "We are not particularly interested in the US market," Xu said. He did not provide more details.