Wednesday, June 11, 2014

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Huawei expands staff workers in Europe

Huawei expands staff workers in Europe


 China Huawei Technologies, the largest Asian manufacturers of telecommunications equipment, plans to expand its workforce in Europe against the background of competing with European Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson. The company plans to hire about 5,500 people in the next five years, including the adoption of at least 1700 employees of scientific research sphere, said marketing director William Xu. According to him, the company now concentrates its investments in countries where the equipment demand. Huawei's revenue in the EMEA region in 2013 increased by 9.4% to 13.6 billion dollars. 

This is more than in the Asia-Pacific and the Americas region. Chinese company says that European telecom operators begin to move to more productive networks and provide services that require higher network bandwidth, so they will be forced to buy new network equipment. In addition, the Vice Chairman of the Huawei Ken Hu said that recently perusing the latest reports in Europe and concluded that Huawei European sales starting to show the first tentative signs of improvement. "Over the past 10 years, we got a great knowledge of the European market and significantly improved our understanding of Europe. Now we have local partners, as well as research and production facilities. 

We believe in Europe and will continue to increase our investments in this market ", - said Hu. Recall that European manufacturers of equipment now on the contrary has been reduced. Thus, the company Alcatel-Lucent announced recently plans to lay off 5,500 people, still plans to lay off 1,500 people company Ericsson. In 2011, Nokia Siemens Networks announced plans to lay off 17,000 people. At Huawei say that European operators still do not actively invested in the development of the latest web standards, but now operators will be forced to introduce 4G-network as well as to move to more productive wired FOL as large volumes of network traffic is constantly growing and traditional networks are no longer able to ignore.
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