Huawei’s global support center in Romania due for opening in February 2012

Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies has announced that it will inaugurate its fourth Huawei Global Support Center in February 2012, according to the Ministry of Communications.

The center will be located in Romania, while the other three global support centers of the company are located in China, India and Mexico.

The information was disclosed during a meeting between the Minister of Communications, Valerian Vreme, and the delegation of the China Development Bank (represented by Wang Gefan, GM of the global cooperation department, and Wang Tianwen, commissioner for Romania) together with officials from Huawei Romania (Jeff Wang, GM, and Vlad Doicaru, manager of the Enterprise division for Romania and Moldova).

“Romania is one of the largest markets in Central and Eastern Europe, and Bucharest is the capital of IT in South-Eastern Europe, while the human resource is special through the large number of cpecialists in technology, IT and engineering,” said the Romanian minister.

By the end of 2014, Huawei will have 1,500 employees in Romania, of whom 80 percent will be Romanian, as Jeff Wang, general manager of Huawei Romania, previously said.

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Huawei Technologies is a Chinese private company founded in 1987, which posted revenues of USD 28 billion last year. The company is present in 140 countries, while in Romania it established a presence in 2004.

In Romania, Huawei posted a turnover of EUR 69.2 million last year, according to the financial data posted on the website of the Finance Ministry.
Otilia Haraga