14 DAY TRIAL // Chinese telecommunication-equipment provider Huawei Technologies Co. is reportedly getting ready to increase its presence on the North American Market. It seems that the company is considering the addition of a number of 600 more jobs to its operations on the continent, in an attempt to expand its market share in the world's largest telecoms market.
According to a recent article on Dow Jones Newswires, Robert Fox, chief branding officer of Huawei's wireless division, stated the following in a recent interview: “U.S. is a very important market to Huawei. We are increasing staff there to support a rise in customer business.” The company plans on making serious moves in a market where it faces strong competition from other leading telecom-infrastructure providers.
Currently, Huawei has a number of around 900 employees in North America. However, the company's global operations include a number of over 87,500 workers. The equipment vendor has a strong position on the Chinese market, and has also started consolidating its operations in a series of emerging markets around the world.
At the same time, the company has also worked on expanding its presence in some of the developed markets on the globe, including Australia, Europe and North America, and has managed to enter these markets through offering cost-effective products to carriers. Back in July, the vendor also announced the opening of a 4G lab in North America, and is currently providing equipment and services to carriers like Cox Communications Corp. and Clearwire Corp.
Huawei has managed to ink some key North American agreements during the ongoing year, this is something that many of you might already know. The deal with Cox Communications involves the carrier's 3G CDMA network, while the one with Clearwire is for the WiMAX network. Huawei has been recently named the second largest mobile-equipment vendor by market share, by the Dell'Oro research firm. According to Fox, the company is in talks with tier-one U.S. Operators, but no details were unveiled.