When Canada’s Nortel Networks went bankrupt in 2009, China’s Huawei recruited an entire Nortel team to its Canadian arm to advance its 5G network development. As Canada banned Huawei in its 5G network in 2022 over security concerns, the leader of that team became a Royal Society of Canada fellow that same year.
Wen Tong, the established engineer who brought his Nortel team with him to join Huawei Canada in 2009, currently leads the Chinese telecom giant’s 5G wireless technologies research.
