Huawei: "good opportunities" in 4G in Europe in 2014
The Chinese supplier Huawei sees good growth opportunities for 2014 in 4G, particularly in Europe, where it has invested heavily in research, told AFP Ryan Ding, CEO of networks on Wednesday at the World Congress telephony in Barcelona.
In an interview given last year, Mr. Ding indicated that Chinese investment in 4G felt were most important to him in 2012, "this year there is not only the Chinese market, the European market will also very important, there will be many opportunities for Huawei, "Has he said.
"With the economic recovery in 2014, consumption data will increase dramatically in Europe. We have found that many operators are ready to accelerate the development of their 4G network," he explains.
"We expect to have good opportunities in China," he adds, because "after licensing 4G end of 2013 in China, all Chinese operators also want to accelerate the development of their 4G network."
Huawei is also "some African countries and the Middle East have also distributed 4G licenses in 2013."
Mr. Ding has ensured that Europe was commercially important but it was also for its "capacity for innovation".
"We have more than 150 engineers working on joint innovations with our customers in Europe", in addition to research and development laboratories in France, Germany, Italy and Sweden.
"Europe has the best mobile capacity around the world, which is why the executive committee has decided to augementer investment in Europe and especially in research and development," he said.
Huawei, founded by a former Chinese army engineer, was denied access to infrastructure projects in the United States and Australia for security reasons, which makes Europe a very market important for the OEM.
Huawei announced in January that he expected a turnover of up to 240 billion yuan (29 billion euros) in 2013, up 8% year on year. Operating profit jumped over 45%.
The group will publish its final annual results in the spring. Huawei indicated rely on annual growth of 10% of its turnover in the next five years.
Note: This article is reprinted by permission from AFP 26/02/2014, the author is Emmanuelle Trecolle . The original article was published in French and was translated by Huawei. AFP reserves all rights. No copying or reproduction is allowed without prior permission.
