They're both very expensive and the carriers primarily care about cost and features. And huawei will take a dozen devs, give them a one way ticket and put them in a hotel room near a customer to grind our whatever feature needed to seal the deal.

I remember years ago talking to some EU telecom VP who was on the engineering side that said "id buy from North Korea if the price was right".

We live in new times anyways - most of the carriers have outsourced a lot of the tech stuff to the vendors anyways.

The entire problem is they aren't nearly as "very competitive" as would be politically convenient.