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LONDON (AFP) – Asiatic profession giant Huawei is substance to establish for liberated a ambulatory sound meshwork worth £50 meg on the author Underground train system in instance for the 2012 Olympics, a inform said Sunday.

Huawei is presenting the substance -- worth the equal of $80 meg -- as a gift from digit athletics host commonwealth to another, reportable the Sun Times newspaper, without citing its sources.

The consort would reportedly establish ambulatory transmitters along the ceilings of tunnels so that travellers can attain and receive calls for the first instance patch underground.

Mobile operators including Vodafone and O2 hit agreed to clear for the installation work, patch Huawei hopes to acquire income in fix fees, according to the report.

Transport for author (TfL), the authorised embody answerable for the instrumentation system in the capital, said talks had started on run a ambulatory meshwork on the underground but did not confirm Huawei's involvement.

"Transport for author and the Mayor of author are currently in discussion with ambulatory sound operators and other suppliers about the potential supplying of ambulatory sound services on the unfathomable Tube network," said a spokesman.

But leader Apostle Mercer, of the Conservative party, warned allowing a Asiatic concern to provide the meshwork could bear a section risk.

"It has been proven that a equilibrium of the cyberattacks on this country become from China," he told the Sun Times.

"I wonder when the eyes of the world are upon us whether there is sense in using a Asiatic concern to establish a huffy ambulatory network."

Huawei, supported 23 eld ago by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer, has daylong unloved accusations that it has ties to the Asiatic military.

It insists it is owned by its employees and that Ren, its honcho executive, has less than a digit proportionality wager in the company.

Huawei's profession is used to physique ambulatory sound networks around the world and its consumer products allow sharp phones that run on Google's Android papers and profession to enter laptops to the cyberspace using 3G networks.

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