Huawei is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networks. The company now serves 36 of the world's top 50 operators, along with over one billion users worldwide. The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and growth potential for its customers.
Huawei was founded in Shenzhen in 1988 and has now grown to be a world-leading provider of commercial public use telecom solutions with revenues of USD 18.3 billion in 2008. As of June 2008, it has over 87,000 employees, of which 43 percent are internationally recruited.
For the past five years, the company has been showing healthy and sustainable growth. In 2008, contract sales were USD 23.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 46 percent. 75 percent of sales were originated from international markets. In 2009, it expects to reach its sales target of USD 30 billion.
Huawei has passed audits of a large number of leading operators such as FT and Vodafone. These strict audits involve reviewing the company’s strategic planning, process, management system, quality control, and human resources. It proves that with so many years’ efforts, Huawei is more and more recognized regarding corporate governance and operation, product quality control, service delivery and so on.
According to the World Intellectual Property Organization, Huawei is the leading company in terms of patent applications filed in 2008. It has participated in the efforts to create international standards for new technologies and has made significant contributions. It is a member of 91 standardization organizations, including WiMAX Forum, ITU, 3GPP and 3GPP2.
Huawei has a broad product portfolio; the only vendor ranking top 3 in three areas of IP, Mobile and fixed network.
In global terms, Huawei was awarded for Financial Times’ Boldness in Business award for “Innovation and Leadership in Emerging Markets”, March 2009; and was named by Business Week as one of the world’s most influential companies, December 2008. In addition, it was listed as one of the World's Most Respected Companies compiled by the Reputation Institute and published by Forbes, May 2007.
The telecommunications industry is now entering the age of ALL-IP and FMC. Huawei is the pioneer in promoting ALL-IP of telecom network and launched its ALL-IP-based FMC solutions in 2006. In the next five years, it will focus on its investments and reinforce its leadership in ALL IP-based FMC solutions.
Huawei Turkey started its operations in 2002 with a local office in Ankara. It is a subsidiary company wholly controlled by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. At that time, industry was recovering from the Dot-com bubble crash. While the Turkish economy was in the doldrums, Huawei recognized significant growth potential and demand for mobile telecom services and DSL broadband access. Huawei believes that its investment in Turkey at that time was the right approach and its subsequent acceptance by Turkish operators reflects that.
Huawei Turkey, since then, has been strengthening its operations with successful projects and holding a strong position in the league of telecommunications vendors both in Turkey and in its neighboring countries. Turk Telekom, Turkcell, Vodafone Turkey, Avea, Alb Telecom, and Eagle Mobile chose Huawei Turkey as the main supplier of equipments, services and network solutions. Istanbul is organizationally the HQ of the CA&C sub-region which is under the CIS region. Huawei Turkey currently employs over 460 people. By the end of 2009, the number of employees is expected to reach 600.
In 2002, Huawei Turkey signed a FAS (frame alignment pattern) agreement with Turk Telekom, positioning the company as the first Chinese vendor to enter Turkey’s communications market. These successful projects continued with MSAN, IPDSLAM and SDH in the following years. In 2008, Huawei Turkey established a training center in Istanbul in cooperation with Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in order to provide trainings to its customers and employees. The company has been expanding its customer base and it became a supplier of 3G access network for Avea, Turkcell and Vodafone in 2009.
As regards future investment plans, Huawei Turkey is planning to open an R&D center in Turkey. For the preparation of the R&D center, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed in Beijing, China between Huawei and the Investment Support and Promotion Agency of Turkey (ISPAT), with the President of the Republic of Turkey Abdullah Gül in attendance. The R&D center will be opened before the end of 2009.