Huawei Europe
Description
OFFICIAL Huawei Facebook presence for Europe Corporate and Carrier Networks. Updates of Huawei Devices will also be available regularly. Huawei is a leading global ICT solutions provider with a vision: to enrich life through communication. It has established extensive operations across the European continent.
Huawei offers the most complete telecom product portfolio in the industry to customers in Europe and worldwide, covering wireless networks, broadband networks, core networks, transmission networks, data communication, value-added services, terminals and services.
A global player
With products and solutions deployed in over 140 countries, Huawei is serving more than one third of the world's population. In 2011, it recorded revenues of $32.4 bn, a year-on-year increase of 11.7 %. In 2012, Huawei's sales revenue reached around $35.4 bn, a year-on-year increase of around 8%. Of this revenue, 66 % came from outside China.
Huawei has invested a total of $19.3 bn in R&D over the past 10 years, including a $4.8 bn investment in 2012, accounting for more than 13 % of the year’s revenue.
It has over 150 000 employees, 45 % of whom specialise in R&D. Around 73 % of its overseas employees are recruited locally.
Huawei has joined over 150 standards organisations, in which it currently holds more than 180 positions. In 2012, it filed over 5 000 standards proposals. It filed a total of 41 948 patent applications in China, 12 453 Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent applications and 14 494 patent applications outside of China. A total of 30 240 patent applications have been granted.