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As of the beginning of 2015, the staff of the Russian representative office of the company is about 1800 people. The company has 11 offices in the country, not counting the headquarters in. To Moscow They are located in,, St. Petersburg,, To Ufa,, Novosibirsk,, Kazan,, and Krasnoyarsk Nizhny Novgorod in. To Samara Vladivostok Rostov-on-Don Yekaterinburg In addition to the Perm office, the company also has a research and training center in Moscow.

There are 2 research and development centers in Russia, in Moscow and in St. Petersburg. The Moscow center has 230 employees working in 7 areas, and 10 specialists in 3 areas work in the center opened in 2017 in St. Petersburg. The programs and algorithms that are created in these centers expand the capacity of networks and are used in all solutions of the company.

Performance indicators

2022: Decrease in revenue by 27.1% to 82,258 million rubles

At the end of 2022, Huawei's revenue in Russia (Technical Company Huawei LLC) decreased by 27.1% to 82,258 million rubles (revenue from financial statements for 2021-2022 excluding VAT). In the ranking " TAdviser100: The largest IT companies in Russia 2023," such an indicator allowed the company to take 8th place.

Management

CIS Governance:

• Wang Kexiang - President of the regional branch of Huawei for the CIS countries (the rest of the CIS countries and Turkey)
• Aiden Wu - CEO of Huawei in Russia

Products and Services

Partners

• Huawei's partner ecosystem in Russia: how it works and what development plans
• ttop Huawei partners in Russia
• Lye Lishun, Huawei Enterprise: our goal is to increase partner sales in 2021 by 30%

History

2023

Expanding the staff of its Russian research offices

On October 10, 2023, it became known that the Russian research institute Huawei has increased its staff by about 67% since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chinese Telecommunications Corporation continues its active scientific activity in the Russian Federation, despite the cessation of official sales of user devices and supplies of equipment for telecom operators in the current geopolitical situation.

According to Forbes, in the first half of 2022, Huawei published 814 ads on the search for specialists in Russia - 49% more than in the same period of the previous year (545 vacancies). At the same time, the company sharply reduced the staff of business units: in particular, the staff of the procurement department and other structural units was cut by about six times. Thus, Huawei focuses its activities in the Russian Federation on research.

As of the beginning of October 2023, about 2,500 specialists work at the Russian Research Institute Huawei. Of these, more than 1000 people work in Moscow, the rest in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk and Minsk. The company also began scientific research in offices in Kazan and Tomsk. In addition, Huawei is exploring the possibility of opening research offices in Yekaterinburg and Yerevan.

It is noted that Huawei annually invests hundreds of millions of dollars in Russian science. And the total annual budget of the company for research and development work in the Russian Federation is about $1 billion. A significant share of funds goes to the implementation of programs with Russian universities. Huawei partners are the University of Science and Technology of MISIS, Moscow State Technical University named after Bauman, RTU MIREA, Kazan Federal University, Tomsk Polytechnic and others. Huawei conducts basic research in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geometry, logic, thermodynamics, bionics and other fields.^[1]

Subletting 50% of the Moscow office area

Huawei is subleasing the square in the Moscow Krylatskie Hills business park, where the central office of the Russian subsidiary of the Chinese company has been located since 2006. This was reported on May 11, 2023 by RBC with reference to the reports of the Russian legal entity Tekhkompany Huawei LLC.

According to a RBC source in the real estate market, Huawei has leased about 13 thousand square meters in total and since February 2023 has been subleasing about 5.5 thousand square meters. According to another informant, the area offered to new tenants is about 6.4 thousand square meters and with lease terms until December 31, 2027. Collectively, Huawei is ready to offer about 40-50% of the space it leases. Due to a reduction in office Huawei Square, it accrued a depreciation of 372 million rubles, according to the company's materials referred to by RBC.

Earlier, an announcement appeared on the online ad service "Cian.ru" about the lease of premises with an area of ​ ​ 2.7 thousand square meters. m in the "Krylatskie Hills," the publication "Business Petersburg" drew attention to this in the fall of 2022.

Experts interviewed by RBC say that earlier some of the employees of the Russian office of Huawei moved to, Kazakhstan but those who did not want to relax quit. The company retains some of the space for employees who continue to work in the unit responsible for technical support. Perhaps she still has hope for a full return to, Russia this requires a sublet, experts say.

The article also states that by May 2023, Huawei retains technical support for its products under old contracts in Russia. At the same time, the Chinese company officially stopped supplying base stations in the Russian Federation back in March 2022.^[2]

2022

Closing of ICT equipment supply division to corporate clients in Russia

On December 19, 2022, it became known that Huawei was closing a division for the supply of ICT equipment to corporate customers in Russia. We are talking about a structure called Enterprise Business Group. Read more here.

Huawei allocated Russia and Belarus in a separate business with an office in Moscow

On November 22, 2022, it became known that Huawei had allocated Russia and Belarus as a separate business with an office in Moscow. We are talking about the Huawei Enterprise division supplying IT and telecommunications solutions to corporate customers. Read more here.

Probability of finally leaving Russia

Huawei may finally leave. Russia This became known on October 31, 2022.

Huawei has completely stopped direct deliveries of smartphones to Russia and may finally leave the country, two sources close to different mobile operators told Izvestia.

A source close to one of the mobile operators said that the Chinese vendor does not supply other equipment to Russia. Another source confirmed that Huawei really does not sell its devices directly at the end of October 2022.

I stopped selling base stations for the cellular company in the spring, said Telecom Daily CEO Denis Kuskov.

Huawei really does not sell its devices in Russia, - confirmed another interlocutor close to the cellular company[3].

Purification of products from US technologies for sale in Russia

Huawei is hampered by a package of sanctions to continue working in Russia, as a result of which the company cannot use American components in production chains, otherwise it will come under sanctions pressure. At the end of October 2022, there is a replacement with clean solutions from countries friendly to Russia.

Relocation of employees from the Russian Federation to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Huawei moved some of the employees from Russia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan to and reoriented them to work in countries. This CIS is written "" with Sheets reference to a source close to the company, as well as one of the partners of the Chinese company in the Russian Federation.

Huawei began to redistribute Russian employees to work in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from the spring of 2022, a source close to Huawei told the publication. According to the source of the newspaper, some of these employees are managers and heads of Huawei units from China. They were sent to Russia at the beginning of 2022, but were subsequently redirected to other CIS countries, he added.

According to Denis Kuskov, general director of the analytical agency Telecom Daily, mainly workers are transferred to Kazakhstan.

The company began transferring employees in July - August, and Kazakhstan was chosen because of all the CIS countries, this market is the largest and most promising for Huawei in the region, "Kuskov explained.

In a new place, employees will develop the company's business in the CIS countries. According to Kuskov, the company went into relocation due to fears of secondary US sanctions and the loss of the European market. Now the vendor faces a reduction in revenue in Russia and the CIS. At the end of July, Huawei cut 50% of freelance employees who worked for it in Russia.

Huawei transfers all operations to the CIS, and supplies goods for parallel imports to Russia, formally having nothing to do with them, added Mikhail Burmistrov, general director of Infoline Analytics. This will lead to a certain increase in the cost of the company's products, including due to the fact that retailers will include a guarantee in the price, the expert said.

According to Felix Kugel, managing director of the personnel company Unity, not all developers are ready to move, they are not always offered a rather attractive relocation package.^[4]

In Russian stores, most of the equipment was marked with "not for sale" signs

The Russian brand stores Huawei do not sell visitors equipment displayed on windows. It is impossible to buy shop windows and phones laptops other goods from the main assortment of the company. This became known on August 18, 2022.

So, Moscow in Huawei stores trade in the Afimall, Aviapark and Gagarinsky centers, most of the price tags contain signs "not for sale" or "demo sample." The same situation is in other regions, for example, in Huawei stores in, and Novosibirsk. Chelyabinsk Tyumen

Visitors, unable to buy a smartphone or laptop, can purchase headphones, cases and other accessories. Delcredere lawyer Yegor Kovalev explained to Kommersant that the buyer has no right to demand the sale of goods with a "not for sale" or "demo sample" plate. He refers to the norms of legislation on a public offer (Article 494 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). According to Kovalev, consumer rights would be violated if several samples of the same product were marked with a plate.

Employees of most Huawei stores could not answer Kommersant's question when sales will resume. One of the Moscow stores expects the supply of equipment in September 2022. The store in Novosibirsk assures that the goods should appear "within two weeks."

One of the employees in the Moscow store explained the difficulties with the receipt of goods "problems with parallel imports." At the same time, the equipment of the Chinese Huawei was not included in the list of goods that are allowed to be imported into Russia without the consent of the manufacturer.

Store employees Chelyabinsk in told the publication that they cannot establish parallel imports, as they are official retailer Huawei.

Not all Huawei stores will see a "not for sale" sign. They are not, for example, in a Moscow store in the Seasons trading gallery. The visitor can purchase all the equipment on display there. The operator of this store is Volga LLC. The store on the electronics manufacturer's website is called "authorized," not branded, the publication points out.

Stores in which the display model is not purchased belong to the operator Premium Retail LLC. According to the Huawei website, in general, 13 monobrand stores operate in Russia, nine of which are managed by Premium Retail.

If earlier the devices were supplied directly, now - through partners, - he notes.

According to him, the supply structure is also changing, the processes "are not fully debugged and so far do not allow bringing equipment to Russia in the necessary volumes^[5]

Closed Vmall - Russian online store of the company

On August 3, 2022, it became known that Huawei it had closed its Russian Internet Vmall store. At the same time, sales were stopped in the same name, the mobile application company said in a statement.

At the same time, Huawei promises to deliver orders issued earlier through Vmall as usual. And the warranty service continues to apply to goods already purchased in the online store.^[6]

Huawei abandoned 50% of outsourced employees in Russia

The Chinese the company Huawei ceased to cooperate with 50% of freelance employees who worked for it in the Russian Federation under an agreement (for). outsourcing This was Izvestia announced on July 25, 2022 by a representative of a partner company of several using the equipment of a cellular operators Chinese vendor.

Most full-time employees are still on leave, he said. The company also stopped hiring personnel in Russia.

As a representative of an unnamed partner company of Russian mobile operators, whose infrastructure has Huawei network hardware, told TASS, the company suddenly at least halved the number of its freelance employees who worked for it in Russia under an agreement. In addition, the Chinese manufacturer of telecommunications equipment stopped hiring new employees in the Russian Federation.

Now the full-time staff is on vacation, but it was expected that it would last no more than a month, a source told the agency. He also added that the company also does not resume the supply of goods to the Russian Federation.

As noted by the director of sales and marketing of the Ancor staffing group Natalya Shcherbakova, the volume of services provided to Huawei by the recruiting company Ancor, which collaborated with the manufacturer in the provision of outsourcing services, is decreasing due to problems with supply chains.

Indeed, some of the employees stopped working on the project with Huawei, but this does not mean that they all entered the market and were out of work; some of them are engaged in other projects not related to Huawei, - said Natalya Shcherbakova.[7]

Huawei has sharply increased recruitment in Russia

On July 1, 2022, it became known that Huawei it sharply increased the recruitment of employees in. Russia According to the recruiting service, the HeadHunter number of vacancies of a Chinese company in the Russian Federation in the first half of 2022 increased by 49% compared to the same period in 2021 (814 versus 545).

Huawei more than tripled the number of sales vacancies (117 versus 27), their number in the field of information technology and communications increased by 33%, in the field of equipment maintenance and installation - by 186%, hiring students and trainees - by 132%. The company also increased the number of vacancies for specialists in the production and maintenance of electronics by 233%. Huawei requires network engineers, base station technicians, access and data equipment (GPON) engineers, etc.

Market participants interviewed by Kommersant believe that Huawei intends to remain on the Russian market and for this is working out schemes for the supply of equipment and electronics through parallel imports, or will create a separate brand for work within the country.

Zelax President Sergei Sukhman, in a conversation with the publication, noted that due to the departure of foreign companies, many specialists entered the labor market, most of whom were taken by Huawei.

Given the fact that in the domestic IT industry and R&D against the background of the crisis, the need for specialists has aggravated, it is unreasonable that the Chinese company is taking the personnel. We give her specialists to then buy developments made by their hands, "he said.

In June 2022, it was reported that Huawei began closing stores in Russia. According to RIA Novosti, four of the 19 stores stopped working. One of the main reasons is the depletion of stocks in warehouses in conditions of disruption of supply chains.^[8]

Huawei stopped supplying DSS and server equipment to Russia

The company Huawei stopped supplying Russia high-performance DSS and server equipment required by large corporate customers. A source in one of the Russian banks told TAdviser about this.

According to the source, enterprise-class IT solutions of the Chinese company are not available to customers from April 2022. In April, the company turned to the equipment manufacturer and was refused.

Due to the inability to purchase industrial storage and server equipment, we plan to use less efficient systems and servers. Now we are looking at what is on the market, and where possible we will use the middle-class equipment that is on the market, "a source shared with TAdviser.

The Huawei press service refrained from commenting.

Another source in a large state-owned bank confirmed to TAdviser that Huawei has suspended the supply of DSS and server equipment. At the same time, he clarified that this affected high-performance corporate equipment, and certain classes of systems of the Chinese company are still available in Russia.

An employee of the Russian office of Huawei, on condition of anonymity, explained to TAdviser that the company did not stop deliveries under previously concluded contracts. However, due to a logistics violation due to COVID-19, and then a shortage of semiconductors, supply delays were back in 2021. Sanctions against Russia, imposed since February 2022, have exacerbated the situation. Due to the fact that it is difficult to fulfill obligations even under existing contracts, the management of the parent company "froze" the conclusion of new contracts for the supply of IT equipment. In parallel, the company is developing anti-crisis measures in case of tougher sanctions against Russia.

Halving smartphone sales

Xiaomi and Huawei have suddenly halved the volume of shipments of their smartphones shipped to Russia. This became known on March 10, 2022. Oppo, another Chinese company, took a similar step, moreover, all three did it absolutely without warning. Read more here.

2021

Decrease in revenue in Russia by 11.7% to 112,775 million rubles

At the end of 2021, Huawei's revenue in Russia amounted to 112,775 million rubles, down 11.7% compared to 2020, which allowed it to take 5th place in the ranking of TAdviser100: The largest IT companies in Russia 2022. The revenue of Technical Company Huawei LLC is taken from the financial statements for 2020-2021 without VAT.

Purchase of Kantemirovsky Business Center for Research and Development

On December 23, 2021, it became known about the sale of the Kantemirovsky business center in the Petrograd district of St. Petersburg to Huawei. The latter intends to use the acquired facility for research and development there.

The value of the deal has not been reported. Anna Sigalova, director of the capital markets department at Colliers, and Andrey Lukashev, partner at ILM, believe that we can talk about an amount of 5 billion rubles. Market participants interviewed by Kommersant admit that the same number of Chinese companies can invest in the reconstruction of the complex, which includes historical buildings.

According to Andrei Lukashev, the successful location of the Kantemirovsky business center in St. Petersburg will allow Huawei to attract personnel and build relations with universities.

Tactics Group CFO Andrei Novikov says that it is becoming profitable for many companies to locate their offices in St. Petersburg, since there are several special economic zones that offer a number of tax benefits and other preferences to their residents.

The newspaper notes that the transfer of employees to a new office will allow Huawei, which failed to buy out the Novospassky business center in Moscow, to receive a number of benefits from Smolny. This solution will also help solve the problem with personnel - it is easier to find IT specialists in the St. Petersburg market than in the capital of the Russian Federation.

By the end of December 2021, Huawei occupies areas in several Moscow facilities at once. The headquarters of the corporation is located in the Krylatskie Kholmy business park, where the company leases 20 thousand square meters. m. The corporation occupies additional areas in the capital in Smolensk Passage II (12.5 thousand square meters) and the SOK Rybakov Tower co-working space (2.3 thousand square meters). R&D Huawei Center is located in the Beta Center on Altufevskoye Highway.^[9]

Digital Community 2021 Conference

Huawei: Customer experience becomes centerpiece of digital transformation

In an era when the corporate world becomes digital, the role and place of the company's client changes: he is no longer only a user of IT products and systems, but also a carrier of unique experience in using these systems. This helps to improve these systems in a way that makes them even more attractive to end customers, which ultimately results in unique competitive advantages. A separate forum "Maximum User Experience 2021," which was held as part of the annual Huawei conference "Digital Community 2021," was devoted to new aspects of the analysis, creation and effective modernization of the ICT infrastructure in line with the customer experience. Read more here.

Cloud cover in Russia will increase: Huawei strategy

A year and a half ago - in March 2020 - Sberbank and Huawei agreed on a large-scale partnership in the Russian cloud technology market. Today, on the basis of this partnership, the idea of ​ ​ a global transition of Russia and Eurasia to clouds, which operate on the basis of advanced Huawei technologies, is being implemented. Read more here.

Huawei: new "floors" of the building of the digital community of Russia and Eurasia

Huawei announced a strategy for creating a digital community in Russia together with local partners last year. At the conference "Digital Community 2021," which took place on October 26-27, the company shared its experience of working together on projects that solve the problems of accelerating the country's digitalization . Read more here.

Dong Tingjin, Huawei - on plans to develop 5G networks in Russia

Dong Tingjin, Huawei's director of wireless network development in the Eurasia region, spoke in a TAdviser video interview about the benefits of 5G networks and Huawei's plans to develop this generation of mobile communications in Russia. Read more here.

Participation in TAdviser SummIT 2021

Oleg Sirotyuk, company representative, May Huawei 26, 2021 on TAdviser SummIT in his speech will talk Huawei Atlas about the 500 platform, which is widely used in the branches of the largest to banksChina implement various scenarios. The intelligent video processing presentation will present the Huawei Atlas 500 platform and an example of building an intelligent system based on it video surveillances.

Appointment of Daniel Zhou as CEO

On May 20, 2021, Huawei Russia (Huawei) announced to TAdviser the appointment of Zhou Daniel (Zhou Danjin, Zhou Daniel) to the post of President of the Eurasian Regional Representative Office of Huawei and General Director of Tech Company Huawei LLC (Russia). Read more here.

Cooperation with UrFU in ICT training

On May 17, 2021, Huawei announced cooperation with the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (UrFU) in the field of training specialists in information and communication technologies (ICT). Read more here.

Reports from the conference of Russian partners Huawei

• Partner Conference Huawei-2021. Announcement
• Huawei-2021 Partnership Conference: Top Ideas and Quotes
• What to expect from 2021? Key talking points from Huawei Enterprise Eurasia chief Xiao Haijun
• Huawei Enterprise: IT Infrastructure and Data Management Development - Under Smart Support Umbrella
• Lye Lishun, Huawei Enterprise: our goal is to increase sales of Russian partners in 2021 by 30%

2020

Revenue in Russia - 127,727 million rubles

At the end of 2020, the company's revenue Russia Huawei amounted to 127,727 million. rubles

VimpelCom has abandoned outsourcing network development and returns 1,600 technical specialists from Huawei and Nokia

At the end of November 2020, it became known about VimpelCom's refusal to outsource network development. The Russian telecommunications operator decided to service its infrastructure on its own and for this returns employees who previously moved to Huawei and Nokia. Read more here.

How the Intelligent Digital World Is Created: Huawei Digital Community Conference Report

The current stage of digitalization, through which the whole world passes, requires strategic understanding of both the high technologies themselves and the goals, as well as methods for implementing digitalization. Huawei presented its vision for this global agenda at the annual Huawei Digital Community Conference, which was held from September 30 to October 2, 2020. Read more here.

Huawei plans to create ecosystems of business solutions with Russian developers

While all foreign vendors are building their relations with Russian companies in the form of a sales partnership, Huawei went further - at the Huawei Digital Community Conference "Digital Community 2020" it was about partnership in the development of high-tech IT solutions and their subsequent sale. Read more here.

Huawei's new strategy in Russia: a country-level ecosystem

Geopolitical shocks are amending the agenda for global digitalization. The company's management Huawei is confident that adequate action is needed. Russia Chinese What does the high-tech leader offer? The company's management spoke about this at the Huawei Digital Community Conference "Digital Community 2020." Read more here.

Huawei introduced in Russia a product for creating an intelligent working environment IdeaHub

At the center of the strategy for building a digital society, to which Huawei has dedicated its Digital Community Conference "Digital Community 2020," is the idea of ​ ​ creating an intelligent digital environment for business. One element of this environment - the advanced digital collaboration tools embodied in Huawei's IdeaHub product - was announced directly at the conference. Read more here.

Agreement with SberMobile and Tele2 to test 5G technology

On October 8, 2020, it became known that SberMobile (the brand of the telecom operator Sberbank-Telecom LLC), part of the Sberbank ecosystem, mobile operator Tele2 and Huawei will test scenarios for using 5G technology based on technologies and infrastructure of the Sberbank ecosystem. Read more here.

Agreement with RTI Group to localize production of server equipment

On October 1, 2020, Huawei announced to TAdviser that it had signed a strategic agreement with RTI Group JSC. The parties agreed to cooperate in the development of joint software and hardware solutions in order to localize the production of specialized server industrial equipment based on the Huawei Kunpeng processor on the territory of the Russian Federation. Read more here.

Ministry of Industry and Trade: Russia is ready to allow Huawei to public procurement in exchange for technology transfer

Government of the Russian Federation ready to open companies Huawei access to public procurement, but on one condition - the Chinese manufacturer will provide the authorities with its technologies. This was announced at the end of September 2020 by the director of the department of the electronic industry. Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Vasily Shpak

Unfortunately, according to our partners, at the same time Huawei at the moment cannot offer microelectronic production within Russia, we do not have it yet. We are just organizing it now. Therefore, from the point of view of our market, admission to the market, we could try to find some kind of compromise here, but we are interested when movement from two sides, when they are ready to give some intellectual solutions, provide us with these technologies, - said Shpak (quoted by TASS).

According to him, by the end of September 2020, in the process of finding ways of cooperation, the government and the leadership of Huawei had made little progress, "but there is a mutual interest," and the dialogue continues.

The director of the radio-electronic industry department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation did not specify what exactly he means by Huawei's admission to public procurement, since a fairly large amount of equipment from a Chinese vendor has already been presented on the equipment market for the public sector. It is possible that we are talking about any preferences that may become available to the manufacturer with participation in public procurement.

The negotiations mentioned by Shpak with Huawei are taking place against the background of the impending ban on public procurement of foreign radio electronics. In May 2020, the Ministry of Industry and Trade prepared a draft government decree, which stated that it was impossible to conduct public procurement of foreign radio electronics, in the presence of analogues of domestic production.^[10][11]

Plans to open 50 branded stores

On September 21, 2020 Huawei , the company announced that in 2021 it will continue to develop the retail network and will additionally open 50 branded stores in large cities:, Russia,, St. Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk Vladivostok others. In addition, HUAWEI plans to increase the range of services for buyers by offering service from official partners directly at branded points of sale. At the same time, users can send the device to the service center directly from any official store.

The entire range of the HUAWEI brand will be presented in branded stores: smartphones, tablets, laptops, wearable devices and accessories. By 2021, the company plans to supplement the line with products released as part of the long-term interaction strategy of 1 + 8 + N devices.

A pilot store with an expanded range of service services opened on September 12, 2020 in the Fashion Season shopping center in Moscow. As of September 2020, customers are offered warranty and non-warranty repair services.

The opening of the first HUAWEI brand store took place in 2018 in the Afimall shopping and entertainment center and was timed to coincide with the start of sales of the series. smartphones HUAWEI P20 As of September 21, 2020, 18 HUAWEI branded stores operate not only in the capital, but also in other cities:,, Rostov-on-Don,, Voronezh,, Novosibirsk, and To Ufa. Naberezhnye Chelny Vladikavkaz Belgorod Novorossiysk Astrakhan

Increased investment in Russia after US sanctions

At the end of August 2020, it became known that Huawei increased its investment in Russia after the United States imposed sanctions against the telecommunications company. This was announced by Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei.

After the United States included us in the sanctions list, we transferred investments from the United States to Russia. We have increased the staff in Russia and raised their salaries, - said Ren Zhengfei.

He added:

Whatever happens, we will never hate the US. This is just an impulsive decision by some politicians, it has nothing to do with American companies, American schools and American society.

As part of his speech to students at key Chinese universities, Zhengfei also stressed that "in order to be truly strong, it is necessary to learn from everyone, including enemies."

US sanctions involve the closure of access for the Chinese giant to the American semiconductor market. Huawei's head of consumer business, Richard Yu Chengdong, noted that due to recent US decisions, it is highly likely that the company will not be able to supply products with Kirin chips as early as 2021. At the Qingdao summit, which took place at the end of August 2020, Yu drew attention to the fact that the company will continue to "look for ways to bypass the US ban on chips."^[12]

Later in September 2020, it was announced that Huawei would invest $800 million in the Russian IT industry over five years. This was announced by the Deputy General Director of Huawei Enterprise in Russia Alexander Stolyarov.

The company plans to invest in training Russian employees and the opening of R&D centers.

Huawei invested $392 million in Russia in 2017-2019, follows from its presentation.

The company now has four development centers in the country. Within five years, the developer plans to open 5 more centers.

Joining the Russian APKIT Association

On August 11, 2020, Huawei announced that it had become a member of the Russian APKIT Association (Association of Computer and Information Technology Enterprises). Huawei's membership in the most representative non-profit IT industry association in Russia will allow the company to forge even closer ties with the Russian digital community. According to the leadership of Huawei in the Eurasian region, APKIT is a platform for building various partner ecosystems.

APKIT members are domestic and world companies in the field of software development and implementation, distribution, system integration, services, computer and equipment production, Internet, as well as niche associations. Companies included in APKIT occupy in many positions up to 70% of the market in Russia. Huawei is ready to offer many of these companies technological experience, joint development of hardware and software solutions, as well as the organization of joint production.

"APKIT attracts significant market players who can contribute to the development of the industry. Huawei has great potential for development in Russia and the formulation of an industry-wide agenda for the digital economy, "said Nikolai Komlev, Executive Director of APKIT. "The Association welcomes a company of such high international level and competence as Huawei in its ranks."

Cooperation with Russian partners is carried out in accordance with the principles of the strategy adopted by Huawei to create a single digital society in Russia. The strategy, called TIGER (Technology, Industry, Growth, Ecosystem, Reliability), implies joint development and use of technologies with Russian companies, the creation of industrial solutions, incentive programs for partners and the creation of an ecosystem of digital solutions, which will ultimately contribute to the accelerated development of Russia's own ICT industry, stable and independent.

Huawei Enterprise introduces support measures for Russian partners

On March 23, Huawei Enterprise CEO in the Eurasia region Xiao Haijun appealed to Russian partners due to the fact that against the background of a difficult global economic, epidemiological and information situation, "unfounded rumors, speculations and assumptions about Huawei's activities are beginning to appear."

An appeal sent to TAdviser says that Huawei "has always kept its word," and now, at this difficult moment, Xiao Haijun, on behalf of Huawei, responsibly states that:

• In response to the spread of coronavirus infection, Huawei has carried out preparatory measures to ensure business continuity, as well as a number of preventive measures to protect the health of employees, ensure the supply of products and services. As part of a comprehensive business continuity management system, the company's production facilities were restored by 99%.

I promise that Huawei will continue to supply products and services to Russian partners as usual, says Xiao Haijun.

• Huawei employs more than 190 thousand employees. In office and manufacturing campuses, Huawei applies effective anti-epidemic practices that the company is willing to share with its partners to minimize the impact of the epidemic on their operations.

Huawei Enterprise is ready to provide all partners with the following support measures:

• Reduced operational load. This clause implies that, at the request of a partner, Huawei may consider the possibility of providing an additional interest-free installment plan for up to 30 days to pay for orders issued before June 30, 2020. And for distributors, if necessary, the company can adjust the MBO rules and thresholds for sales volume goals in the first and second quarters.

• Postponement of the date of assessment of partner certification - for those partners who must pass the assessment of certification in the first half of 2020, postpone its deadline to September 30, 2020.

• Joint Market Fund (JMF) extension - For JMF, which expires between March 1 and June 30, 2020, the company is poised to extend it for 6 months.

• POC test support - Huawei will provide partners with remote POC testing in DemoCloud.

• Conducting free online trainings - Until June 30, 2020, Huawei plans to conduct a number of online trainings on the latest technologies and solutions. The list includes network solutions (training on the main characteristics of the new Air Angine Wi-Fi 6 products with a demonstration of its capabilities), DSS (detailed technical training on the new generation of All-Flash DSS V6), smart screens (Huawei smart screen for enterprises - overview of intelligent interaction scenarios). Training also applies to UPS (Huawei is ready to provide an overview of UPS and All Li-ion, Always ON), as well as TaiShan and AI servers.

To create a single Russian digital community, we urge all partners to unite and jointly overcome temporary difficulties. You and I are in the same boat and, faced with the elements, only coordinated action will we be able to curb it. There is only a victory ahead of us!, - said in a letter from the CEO of Huawei Enterprise in the Eurasia region.

Plans to build a digital open future with Russia

Huawei's plans include, together with Russia, building a digital open future based on the principles of Diversified Technology Provision and Advisory Localized Contribution. This was announced on March 3, 2020 by the CEO of Huawei Enterprise in the Eurasia region, Xiao Haijun. Read more here.

Our first foreign order came from Russia, it was a small power supply for $8. For us, the Russian market is of strategic importance, because we have been present here for 22 years. Therefore, we want to develop this market and will direct all our efforts to the development of the electronic industry in Russia, - said Xiao Haijun.

Huawei will launch the production of electronic components in Russia

On March 3, 2020, it became known that Huawei will launch the production of electronic components in Russia. In particular, the company will manufacture chips for motherboards, video cameras and Smart TVs, as well as cards for artificial intelligence systems (Atlast Card) at Russian factories.

Xiao Haijun, CEO of Huawei Enterprise in the Eurasia region, announced the large-scale development of the electronic industry in the Russian market at the annual partner conference. He recalled that the company already produces server equipment in Russia based on its own Kunpeng processors.

Xiao Haijun also said that Huawei intends to train up to 50 thousand specialists in the Russian Federation and increase the number of research and development centers in the Russian Federation from four to five. By the beginning of March 2020, R&D centers of the Chinese vendor are operating in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk. In which city it is planned to open a new facility, it is not reported.

According to the top manager of the company, in five years Huawei is going to increase the volume of local purchases in Russia to $800 million. Over the previous three years, expenses amounted to $400 million.

Russia is of strategic importance for Huawei, it is a strategically significant market for us, Xiao Haijun said, adding that Huawei's Russian business grew by 16% in 2019.

He noted that Huawei has been operating in Russia since 1997, and the first foreign order came to the company from the Russian Federation - "this is only $8 for a small power supply."

At the same Huawei Enterprise conference, Yuan Li, director of solutions and technology for the Eurasia region, said that in 2020 the company will increase the budget for supporting partners by 20%. By the beginning of March, the company has a total of 1.1 thousand partners.^[13]

2019

Revenue growth by 8.8% to 143, 9 billion rubles

At the end of 2019, Huawei (Technical Company Huawei LLC) took 3rd place in the TAdviser Ranking: the 50 most profitable representative offices of foreign IT companies in Russia. The company's revenue for 2019 amounted to 143 945 156,00 thousand rubles, which is 8.8% more than in 2018.

Opening of R&D Laboratory for Software Development Tools Development with ICP RAS

The V.P. Ivannikova Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISP RAS) and the Russian Research Institute Huawei (Huawei Russian Research Institute) have created a joint laboratory within the framework of a strategic partnership, the work of which will be aimed at research and development in the field of compiler technologies and components of operating systems. This was reported to TAdviser on December 5, 2019 by Huawei. Read more here.

Branded service centers will open in Moscow, Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod

On November 18, 2019, Huawei announced the official opening of three branded service centers in Moscow, Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod on December 1, 2019.

In branded service centers, users will be able to receive a full range of warranty and non-warranty repair services, including an express repair service of 45-120 minutes in the presence of the necessary spare parts. Owners of HUAWEI and Honor devices that monitor the company's shares will have the opportunity to receive a discount on paid repairs, extend the warranty period for free, or receive a protective film on the screen as a gift.

The service centers are equipped with waiting areas with wireless Internet.

Addresses of branded service centers:

• Moscow, Sukharevskaya Ploshchad, 16/18, p.2
• Kazan, st. Rustem Yakhina, 8
• Nizhny Novgorod, st. Maxim Gorky, 160

In addition to seven branded service centers in major cities, HUAWEI has already authorized in Russia as of November 2019 more than 80 service centers that carry out warranty and post-warranty repairs of smartphones, laptops, tablets and wearable devices HUAWEI and HONOR.

Investing $10 million in the development of the mobile application ecosystem in Russia

In early November 2019, Huawei announced an investment of $10 million in the development of mobile applications in Russia. The funds will be used to encourage Russian developers and software owners who will become part of the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) ecosystem. Read more here.

Huawei appoints new sales director for corporate and public sector in Russia

In November 2019, Huawei announced the appointment of Wang Chen as sales director of the company's corporate solutions division in Russia. Read more here.

Agreement on the creation of equipment production based on Huawei Kunpeng together with Norsi-Trans

On October 31, 2019 Huawei , he announced that, together with the company Norsi Trance"," a domestic manufacturer of information and analytical systems, they entered into a cooperation agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will create joint production of equipment on the basis, processor KunPeng while the components servers will be, and the the Russian production itself will be localized Russia on the basis of Norsi-Trans. More. here

Agreement with NNSU to establish ICT Academy

On October 9, 2019, the company Huawei announced that it had National Research Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I. Lobachevsky (NNSU) jointly agreed on cooperation in the field of training specialists in information and communication technologies (ICT). The agreement on the creation of an ICT Academy on the basis of the university was signed by Vice-Rector for Public Relations Nikita Avralev, and Deputy General Director. Huawei Enterprise in Russia Alexander Stolyarov More. here

Intention to invest 50 million rubles in the development of 5G in Russia within 5 years

On October 8, 2019, Huawei announced that Ken Hu, Deputy Chairman of the Company's Board, made a presentation on accelerating the deployment of 5G networks in Eurasia.

Mr. Hu noted: "5G technologies began to be used much faster than, for example, this happened with 4G. Thus, 40 operators from 20 countries have already launched 5G networks into commercial use. 2/3 of these projects are being implemented in conjunction with Huawei. We are pleased to see Eurasia moving confidently towards 5G rollout. Especially here, in Russia, leading operators are actively working on the creation of pre-commercial test 5G zones and demonstrate real cases of using technologies of this communication standard. We all know that the introduction of 5G is a big and hard work of all market participants. We have to face many difficulties, however, at Huawei we believe that innovation and the creation of a single ecosystem will speed up the process of commercial launch of 5G. "

According to a Huawei spokesman, 5G will completely change the user experience. The user needs speed.

For example, in Moscow, in the joint pilot zone, MTS and Huawei demonstrated an unprecedented download speed - 3.7 Gbps. This is 150 times faster than the average speed of fourth-generation mobile networks in Russia in October 2019, "said Mr. Hu.

According to Ken Hu, 5G will open up incredible opportunities for industries. An example of a 5G application is the use of high-resolution video to provide remote medical care. Huawei believes that this service will help increase the number of patients and increase the level of services provided not only in Moscow or other large cities of Russia, but also abroad.

Huawei's vice chairman also shared a vision for accelerating the deployment of 5G networks in Eurasia. He noted that at this stage it is important to give operators the opportunity to use a wider range of frequencies, and in this matter industry players need the support of national governments. Operators need help creating an infrastructure to accommodate equipment - the cost of renting sites can exceed half the cost of the entire network deployment project. As a solution to this problem, the government may consider using state-owned objects to install equipment on them. This will greatly speed up the process of deploying networks. Industry participants need to join forces to build a 5G ecosystem, Mr. Hu said.

The expert also stressed the importance of training qualified professionals and supporting 5G innovation. As an example, he cited the 5G curriculum for customers, partners and students, which started in 2019. The objective of the program is to train 10,000 specialists over the next 5 years, and the company's investments in this project will amount to more than 50 million rubles. According to him, in Russia, in 2019, 1,500 people took part in the program.

Refusal to replace Google services in smartphones with Yandex applications

Huawei is not going to replace Google services with Yandex applications in its smartphones. Jaime Gonzalo, vice president of Huawei's mobile services in Europe, spoke about this in an interview with RIA Novosti at the end of September 2019.

At the same time, he noted that the Chinese company is ready to discuss with Yandex the pre-installation of its services on Huawei devices. But we are not talking about substitution.

We found that Russian users prefer to use Yandex and Mail.ru services, and we work closely with these companies. Some apps are part of our ecosystem, "Gonzalo says. - This is [pre-installation of Yandex applications] what we need to discuss with partners. If users express such a desire, then we will consider such an option... We always try to build on the needs of users and provide a choice to use those applications that are more convenient for them.

According to the top manager of Huawei, previously the company's phones were already sold with pre-installed Yandex services, including Yandex.Navigator.

As reminded by the agency Prime"," in August 2019, President of Huawei Mobile Services and Vice President of Huawei CBG Alex Zhang announced negotiations with Yandex on the introduction of a voice assistant Alice"" smartphones in the Chinese company.

According to Chang, the companies discussed joint work in the field of music services, taxis, weather and other Yandex projects. At the same time, Mail.ru Group announced that it was negotiating the pre-installation of its software on Huawei devices. The company did not specify details.

Jaime Gonzalo told RIA Novosti that the negative impact of the ban on the use of Google services in Huawei smartphones has been exaggerated - nothing will change much in the operation of devices.^[14][15]

Rental of 3 floors of offices in the center of Moscow

In September 2019, it became known about Huawei's lease of three floors in the Smolensky Passage-2 TDK. There, a Chinese manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and mobile devices will open an additional office.

The lease agreement, which was signed with JSC Corporation A.N.D., assumes that Huawei will use three floors of a business complex with a total area of ​ ​ 7.5 thousand square meters. m. The broker for this deal, which took place back in July 2019, was Cushman & Wakefield.

TDK "Smolensky Passage - 2" has a total area of ​ ​ 58 thousand square meters. 100 meters away is the Smolenskaya station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya and Filevskaya lines of the Moscow metro.

This is Huawei's second major office in Moscow. The first - 16 thousand square meters. m - is located in the Krylatskie Kholmy business park. The company leases there. The head office of the Huawei was located "Krylatskie Holmakh" since 2006. In addition, Huawei leased 110 jobs in SOK co-working space in 2019.

In August 2019, the Kommersant newspaper, citing its sources in the commercial real estate market, wrote that the company should enter the Novospassky business quarter of the PSNDmitria Ananyeva group, and is also negotiating with the owners of the Smolensky Passage business center. Huawei claimed in August 2019 that the company did not plan to move from Krylatskiye Kholm.

Huawei was looking for space to open an office in addition to Krylatskiye Kholm, said Vera Zimenkova, regional director of the office real estate department at Colliers International. According to her, Krylatskie Hills had an extremely low vacancy rate by August 2019, so the company had to look for another office due to the expansion of staff.

Renting offices at Smolensky Passage-2 has become one of the few examples when foreign IT companies conclude large transactions in the Russian real estate market. In 2019, such companies, on the contrary, are reducing their presence, said Vladimir Rybakov, director of the Accent Capital office real estate department.^[16]

Huawei will increase the number of R&D specialists in Russia by 4 times

On August 15, 2019, Huawei announced plans to increase the number of research and development (R&D) centers in  Russia by almost 4 times.

According to Vedomosti, citing a representative of Huawei, by 2024 it is planned to hire 1,500 such employees, including 500 by the end of 2019. By August 2019, the Chinese company has two R&D centers in the Russian Federation: they are located in Moscow and St. Petersburg , 400 and 150 people work there, respectively.

By the end of 2019, Huawei is going to open three more R&D laboratories. In which cities they will be launched, not specified. Also unknown are the tasks that the employees of these centers will do.

Huawei intends to cooperate with Russian scientific communities, universities and other research centers. According to a company spokesman, thanks to state growth, the Russian R&D direction of Huawei will become the third in the world after Europe and North America.

Expanding the local research base will open up new jobs for talented scientists who will work to study advanced technologies in Russia, while developing solutions that meet the requirements of the global ICT industry, Huawei told RIA Novosti.

The publication reminds that R&D centers in Russia have such technology companies as Intel, Samsung and Microsoft.

Huawei continues to develop cooperation with Russia. In mid-August 2019, it became known that the Mail.ru Group began negotiations on pre-installing its software on Huawei smartphones. We can talk about the integration of mail, messenger, social network "VKontakte" and other services in more than 1 million smartphones.

In addition, the Chinese company is negotiating the integration of the Alice voice assistant developed by Yandex into its devices. ^[17]

Cooperation with the Southern Federal University in order to develop cooperation in the scientific field and personnel training

On July 31, 2019, it became known that HUAWEI and Southern Federal University signed a memorandum of strategic partnership. The ceremony was held in the main building of the Southern Federal University in Rostov-on-Don. Read more here.

Opening of a national ICT academy in conjunction with MTUCI

On July 25, 2019, Huawei announced the conclusion of an agreement with the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUSI) on the opening of a national ICT academy in Russia. The document was signed by the rector of MTUSI Sergey Dmitrievich Erokhin and Huawei vice president in Eurasia He Chen. Read more here.

Memorandum with RANEPA on joint development of educational initiatives

On June 6, 2019, Huawei announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. Read more here.

Purchase of "Eagle Softlab"

On June 3, 2019, it became known about the sale of intellectual property to Vokord by Chinese Huawei. The latter also received part of the team of the Russian developer of video surveillance systems. Read more here.

Opening of branded service centers in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg

On April 25, 2019, Huawei announced the official opening of three branded service centers in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg, combining a showroom, a service center and a HUAWEI retail store. The showrooms will feature the most current HUAWEI and HONOR products, which will allow users in the regions to get acquainted with the company's new products and purchase them immediately after the official launch in Russia. Service centers, conveniently located on the central streets, began work on April 22, 2019.

In the service departments of the centers, users can receive a full range of services for warranty and non-warranty repairs, including the express repair service within 45-120 minutes with spare parts.

The centers have comfortable waiting areas, with wireless internet for visitors.

Customer Service Center Addresses:

• 6/2 Ligovsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg
• Novosibirsk, st. Ordzhonikidze, 33
• Yekaterinburg, st. Malysheva, d. 36

In addition to the main multifunctional center in Moscow on Tverskaya Street and three regional centers, HUAWEI has already authorized more than 70 service centers in Russia that carry out warranty and post-warranty repairs of smartphones, laptops, tablets and wearable devices of HUAWEI and HONOR brands. In addition, users living far from service centers or simply unable to bring a broken device in person can use the service of courier delivery of devices to and from the service center.

Huawei plans to invest $4 million in Russian partners

Huawei on March 22, 2019 announced a program for working with partners in Russia, the main principles of which will be "simplicity," "profitability" and "manufacturability." In total, in 2019, the company plans to invest about $4 million in the development of local partners, and triple the amount of refunds (rebate).

According to the company, as of March, Huawei's corporate clients include representatives of the Russian banking and energy sector, 15 federal ministries and 40 regional governments, more than 700 small and medium-sized businesses. The total number of organizations using Huawei technologies and solutions is approaching 1000.

Huawei continues to grow rapidly both in the world and in Russia. Global corporate sales of the company for 2018 increased by 19%. In Russia, this figure reached 39%, which allowed the Russian Enterprise Department to take first place outside the Chinese market, "said Alexander Stolyarov, Deputy General Director of Huawei Enterprise in Russia. - Partners continue to play a key role in Huawei's corporate business. As our conductors in the local market, they provide up to 90% of sales. That is why we pay so much importance to working with partners: we regularly conduct trainings and certification of specialists, organize events and joint marketing projects, and actively invest in the regions.

As of March 22, the number of Huawei sales partners in Russia exceeds 800, while the company also has over 20 partners in the development of joint solutions, more than 70 service partners, and the number of certified specialists exceeds 1.5 thousand people.

Huawei changes structure in the region

Huawei has opened an office in the Eurasia region in Moscow. The Russian office will now report to him. At the same time, the functional composition of employees is changing in regional offices in Russia. Huawei is closing six offices in the regions of Russia (in the North-West, Far Eastern, South, Siberian, Ural and Volga federal districts).

Regional offices remain, their structure and functional composition of employees are changing. The creation of the Eurasian region due to the accession to Russia of 10 divisions operating in neighboring countries requires a concentration of managerial competencies and resources in the head office, in connection with which the management structure of regional offices will undergo certain changes. However, the main staff will continue to work, and this will not affect operational processes and interaction with customers, the company's press service said. "As part of Huawei's overall development strategy in Russia, the company plans to increase the number of R&D investments in the regions and open a number of research centers."

The document was signed on March 12, after a visit to Russia by Huawei President Ren Zhengfei.

Huawei is firing sellers from regional offices, but engineers remain with the company, a source familiar with the situation said. "In addition, Huawei intends to increase the number of developers in Russia, including in the field artificial intelligence of (AI). Among the cities where they plan to look for developers Novosibirsk-,,,, Moscow Tomsk"- Nizhny Novgorod said a source^[18]

Tele2 and Huawei will cooperate in the development of the 5G standard

On February 26, 2019, Tele2 announced that it had entered into a partnership agreement with Huawei. The document identifies opportunities for strategic cooperation in the development of a 5G-oriented transport and backbone network. Get worse here.

2018

Revenue growth by 2 times to 132.3 billion rubles

In 2018, the Russian division of Huawei (Tekhkompany Huawei LLC) registered a record revenue of 132.3 billion rubles. In 2017, it was measured at 61.7 billion rubles. The company's net profit during this time jumped 2.4 times and reached 3.35 billion rubles.

According to a source RBC close to Huawei, the company's revenues increased due to the growth in sales of mobile devices. The company's share in the Russian market smartphones grew from 11% in 2017 to 20% a year later in physical terms, which allowed Huawei to get ahead Apple and take second place in unit sales of pipes. The Chinese vendor lost only (Samsung data). IDC

An interlocutor of RBC in a large Russian retailer says that for the whole of 2018, about 7.5 million smartphones under the brands Huawei and Honor (also owned by Huawei) were sold in Russia. The average cost of the device was 13.4 thousand rubles. Based on this, the company could sell devices worth 100 billion rubles.

According to the source of the publication, retailers purchase all gadgets, including wearable devices, Huawei and Honor brands from Tech Company Huawei LLC. Thus, the sale of consumer devices could give Huawei more than 75% of revenue in Russia.

M.Video-Eldorado The statement says that every fourth smartphone purchased in Russia in 2018 is released under the Huawei or Honor brand). At the retailer itself, sales of Huawei and Honor devices quadrupled due to a widely presented line, joint shares and convenient credit tools, a network representative told RBC, without naming the amount of revenue.

The revenue of all Huawei in 2018 reached $105.19 billion, or about 6.6 trillion rubles. Thus, the Russian business accounted for about 2% of the corporation's turnover. In financial statements, Huawei does not disclose revenues in certain countries.^[19]

Huawei will open two additional data centers in Russia

At the beginning of 2019, Huawei will have two additional data centers in Russia, which will be based in Moscow. As of November 2018, the company already has one site in the capital of our country - for about 100 server racks; it opened in April 2018. Both data centers should be launched in March 2019. The first of them will house about 300 racks, the starting capacities of the second have not yet been determined. At the same time, both of these sites are designed for 1000 racks each. Arthur Pärn, Director of Solutions for Huawei Cloud in Russia, spoke about this.

Huawei's partner in this project is a domestic operator. data centers 3data This organization provides the Chinese the company with physical sites, and Huawei brings its own to them servers and ports its services to them, which customers can use according to the cloudy model.

The partners call the exact structure of Huawei's relationship with 3data a trade secret. However, customers in our country only interact directly with 3data. The operator sells and promotes services, provides the so-called first and second line of technical support, takes over all transaction processing issues, and also independently licenses the data center equipment and receives the necessary permits from local regulators.

We have a parent cloud in China in which all services are launched initially. It has about 110 services of various categories as of November 2018: IaaS, SaaS, PaaS. In each country, we choose our own model of work - through someone or on our own. In Russia, our cloud has been launched together with 3data, and the branding is joint.

According to Arthur Pärn, Russia became the first region outside China in which the name of Huawei is present in the partner public cloud, and not just a partner - Huawei 3data Cloud. In other countries, customers may not know at all that the services they need are provided from the Huawei library on the hardware of this company. As the general director of 3data Ilya Hala explains, in Russia it was decided to use the name Huawei, because this brand is well known in our country.

Huawei has no plans to work in Russia without intermediaries. And now, if the customer somehow comes to it directly, Huawei transfers it to 3data. The contract will be signed by the data center operator.

Despite the fact that Huawei services already exist in China in a ready-made form, the deployment of each of them in any country requires quite a lot of effort - allocating racks, solving the tasks of porting and localization, spending on energy costs, etc. In addition, as Arthur Pärn says, organizations in Russia are just coming to understand the effectiveness of using certain cloud services - companies do not yet have enough expertise to work with them.

Ilya Hala also confirms the unwillingness of Russian organizations to use the full range of Huawei resources.

When we started the project, we asked our Chinese colleagues not to launch all services in Russia at once. If you dump one hundred services at the same time, then we will confuse everyone, no one will figure it out. People will not understand why all this. Therefore, we agreed to move consistently, and we have a roadmap. First, we deployed about 20 services. It takes several weeks to port any service. We have a clear release schedule. Depending on the interest of customers, we select services and put them in our next release.

At the same time, according to the general director 3data, most likely not all services will be ported in Russia as a result, because each regional market has its own characteristics.

Note that 3data positions itself as a network of premium data centers, which in Russia has implemented the concept of "data center walking distance." As Hala explains, light within known limits does not care what distance to travel along the fiber. But the length of the route at the same time affects the cost of data transmission very significantly.

According to the general director 3data, for most of his clients, the average route from their offices to the nearest data center of the company costs several thousand rubles a month. To conditional traditional data centers (on the outskirts of the city or in the Moscow region), the communication channel, according to him, will cost several tens of thousands of rubles.

The second important argument in favor of the deployment of data centers near potential customers is related to aspects of the psychology of Russian clients, for which, oddly enough, the physical availability of Huawei's^[20] is important].

Huawei will open a research center in Tatarstan

Huawei on November 16, 2018 informed TAdviser about the signing of a memorandum of cooperation with the Ministry of Informatization and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan. Zhu Weihua, Vice President for Corporate Technological Cooperation at Huawei, and Roman Shaikhutdinov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Informatization and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan, put their signatures in the document.

Within the framework of the memorandum, the parties intend to consider the possibility of organizing a Huawei research laboratory in the Republic of Tatarstan, and also agreed to hold mutual consultations on the exchange of scientific and practical experience.

The discovery of a research laboratory will be an important step for both sides. Now Huawei will not only introduce ICT technologies in the field of the republic's economy, but also develop them together with scientific specialists in the region, "commented Zhu Weihua, vice president for corporate technological cooperation at Huawei.

Our cooperation with Huawei in the development of safe city systems, the introduction of 5G technology will help us make a breakthrough in the digitalization of the region. The Research and Development Center, which is planned to be opened, will help effectively use the scientific and technical potential of the republic. The company's potential interest in venture capital investment in Tatarstan IT projects and solutions is also pleasing, - said Roman Shaikhutdinov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Informatization and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan.

At the same time, the document addresses a whole range of goals and tasks that contribute to the exchange of experience in such priority areas as research in the development of modern technologies, the involvement of scientific personnel and startups of the Republic of Tatarstan in joint research work.

In general, the signing of the memorandum was a continuation of cooperation between the parties, which began at the end of January 2018 with the conclusion of an agreement between Huawei and the Government of Tatarstan on cooperation in the field of ICT implementation in various sectors of the region's economy. At the same time, the event confirms the desire of the parties to develop and deepen mutually beneficial work and promote the implementation of joint scientific and educational initiatives in the field of ICT.

Agreement on opening a partner center in Skolkovo

Huawei on October 16, 2018 announced the signing of a partnership agreement with the Skolkovo Foundation. The agreement is aimed at creating a joint partner center on the territory of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. Read more here.

Cooperation with the Moscow School of Management "Skolkovo"

On October 15, 2018, Huawei announced that it had signed an agreement with the Moscow Skolkovo School of Management. According to the company, the agreement implies partnership in the field of modern ICT technologies - including in the field of digital transformation - and cooperation in the implementation of joint educational projects. The memorandum was signed by Zhao Lei, vice president of Huawei in Russia, and Andrei Sharonov, president of the Moscow School of Management at Skolkovo. Read more here.

Apple lost to Huawei in the Russian smartphone market

On September 12, 2018, the analytical company Counterpoint Technology Market Research published some results of a study of the Russian smartphone market. Judging by experts, there have been changes in the top three manufacturers - Huawei is ahead of Apple. Read more here.

Consolidation of offices in the Krylatskie Holmy business park

Huawei has expanded its office space in Moscow, renting a total of 9.3 thousand square meters in the Krylatskie Kholmy class A business park. This was announced on July 12, 2018 by Cushman & Wakefield, which acted as an exclusive consultant to four Huawei transactions for renting office space.

According to representatives of the consulting company, the need to expand existing office space and consolidate the company's Moscow business units arose as a result of the active growth of Huawei's business in Russia. Since 2017, the existing lease agreements of various company facilities have been reassessed, as well as the development of a long-term strategy to consolidate Huawei offices in Moscow and open the first Open Lab for customers.

Since 2006, the head office of the IT company was located in one of the buildings of the Krylatskie Kholmy business park and occupied 4,640 sq.m. In almost a year, however, Huawei nearly tripled its office space in the BC, completing their consolidation in March 2018. As of July 2018, Huawei occupies more than 13,000 square meters. m in the Krylatskie Hills business park.

The Krylatskie Kholmy business park was built surrounded by the Moskvoretsky natural-historical park. The total area of ​ ​ the business park is 105,000 sq.m., of which the leased area is 92,300 sq.m. The owner of the business park is Millhouse.

Agreement with Sberbank on cooperation in the field of ICT

On April 3, 2018, Huawei and Sberbank signed an agreement on cooperation in the development of information and communication technologies based on Huawei OpenLab and their further implementation in the banking industry. Companies intend to jointly develop network solutions using free software. The agreement was signed as part of the official opening of Huawei OpenLab Moscow.

Acting as a platform for joint projects, Huawei OpenLab provides opportunities for the development, testing and evaluation of the solution, as well as the installation of its demo version. Within the framework of cooperation, the parties will provide each other with analytical and expert support related to current and future projects, conduct joint events, including technology presentations.

The parties plan to implement joint projects in the following areas: cloud technologies for data centers, distributed computing technologies in RAM, promising open source software technologies, chip development innovations, software-defined network solutions.

In particular, as part of the agreement, a joint working group was created, which in the near future will begin testing switches with open hardware and software architecture for data centers. According to Huawei representatives, this area is one of the key in the development of network technologies, since it allows you to optimize the management of telecommunications infrastructure, as well as reduce capital and operating costs.

Opening of the OpenLab Moscow demo center and laboratory

Huawei on April 3, 2018 announced the opening of OpenLab Moscow, a demo center and laboratory designed to organize the joint work of the company's engineers and its partners and customers in order to develop, customize and test new technological solutions. Moscow OpenLab has become the tenth Huawei laboratory in the world. The company plans to increase the number of such centers to 20 by 2020, investing more than $200 million in this global project.

The main goal of OpenLab is to create a technological ecosystem within which the company's partners will be able to use Huawei's engineering resources, as well as develop and test corporate solutions on the vendor's side. As of April, it includes 51 Russian companies. With 23 of them, active project work began, specified in Huawei.

The Huawei OpenLab partner program involves gaining remote access to the laboratory using the LaaS (Lab-as-a-Service) model. For example, partners can integrate and test cloudy data center industry applications with support from Huawei engineers. In general, participation in OpenLab projects opens up access to available vendor resources.

Among the key areas of Huawei OpenLab, the company noted: the financial sector, transport, power, the oil and gas industry, public safety provided under the smart city project. The demonstration center provides an opportunity, even during the discussion and planning stage, to get an idea of ​ ​ what the project will look like in real life after its completion.

Our strategy is the development of the platform and ecosystem, investments in new technologies such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, big data, mobile broadband, software-defined networks and other promising areas that allow you to create an open, flexible and secure ICT infrastructure, - commented on the opening of OpenLab Moscow Aiden Wu, CEO of Huawei in Russia.

Among the Russian partners of Huawei OpenLab IBS SAP are,,,, Alphaopen Accenture ATM, Business Climate,,,,,, Diasoft GridGain ICBcom starc ISS., NCore Unilight, Urban Innovation Group,, Indemit, I-Teco",", ",",,, Jet InfosystemsCROC CIEX,. Lanit-Integration "Proteus" Technoserv "Financial Technology Centre"

Appointment of Xiao Haijun as CEO of Huawei Enterprise Business Group in Russia

In March 2018, Xiao Haijun was appointed vice president of the company and CEO of Huawei Enterprise Business Group in Russia. In this post, he replaced Dzheson Cao, who will continue to work for Huawei. The position he holds will be announced later. Read more here.

Launch of Huawei Cloud and public cloud in Russia

Huawei on March 20, 2018 announced the creation of the Huawei Cloud direction in the structure of the company's Russian business and the launch in Russia of a public cloud operating under the brand of a global technology company and created in partnership with the Russian operator of a network of premium data centers by 3Data. According to the company, Huawei 3Data Cloud will be the first public cloud sold by Huawei outside China under its own brand. 3data will be responsible for cloud operation, the first and second support lines, and will also become an exclusive partner when working with cloud service customers. Read more here.

2017

Cooperation with Sberbank

Sberbank and Huawei signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation in June 2017. The document at the head office of Sberbank was signed by the President, Chairman of the Management Board of Sberbank German Gref and Executive Director of Huawei Go Pin.

The memorandum provides for the interaction of the parties in the development of innovative products and services using, and machine intelligence Big Data "cloud" infrastructures. The center of attention is electronic, health care services of the "smart city," "smart," "electronic formations government," as well as "." In internet of things 2017 To Moscow , Huawei will open an OpenLab center, which could become the basis for subsequent joint projects.

FSTEC Perpetual Licenses

In the spring of 2017, the Russian division of Huawei received two indefinite licenses from the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control, giving the right to both technical protection of confidential information and the direct development and production of means of protecting such information.

The first license covers the control of the security of confidential information from unauthorized access and its modification in the means and systems of customer informatization. The Company also receives the right to design in a protected version of means and systems of informatization, protected premises, installation, installation, testing, repair of means of information protection. The second license gives the right to develop and manufacture software and hardware means for protecting and processing confidential information, as well as monitoring its security.

Multifunctional center on Tverskaya street

In May 2017, Huawei announces the opening of a specialized multifunctional center on Tverskaya Street. This will be the company's first showroom, service center and store in Moscow. The multifunctional center will open at the end of May at 28 Tverskaya Street on the first floor of the historical building and will occupy an area of ​ ​ 274 square meters. m. Now the center is working in test mode.

The showroom will feature products from the Huawei and Honor brands, some of which can be purchased immediately. The service division will provide a full range of services for the post of sales maintenance of products. Also in the center there will be a training hall where various trainings and master classes will be held, both for the company's partners and for ordinary buyers.

The deal was consulted by Colliers International.

2016

Huawei's direct contracts with Russian state-owned companies have grown more than 2 times

In 2016, the volume of contracts directly concluded by Huawei (Technical Company Huawei LLC) with Russian state-owned companies increased by more than 2 times. According to TAdviser estimates, in 2015, state-owned enterprises spent about 3 billion rubles on solutions and services of the Chinese company, and in 2016 about 7 billion rubles. At the same time, the number of such agreements increased by only 20%.

The largest domestic consumer of Huawei products among state-owned companies can be called Rostelecom. In 2015, the total cost of agreements between the Russian operator and the Chinese manufacturer amounted to about 2 billion rubles. In 2016, this amount grew 2 times, to 4 billion rubles.

Other major partners of Huawei in Russia are Sberbank and MGTS. The largest Russian bank in 2016 spent about 2.5 billion rubles on Huawei solutions and services. MGTS "distinguished itself" in this regard in 2015, concluding contracts for about 850 million rubles.

At the end of 2015, Rostelecom and MGTS contracts accounted for about 90% of all Russian state contracts of Huawei in monetary terms. In 2016, the contracts of the two largest domestic partners of the Chinese company - Rostelecom and Sberbank, accounted for about 93% of all state agreements of the Chinese company in Russia.

If you look at purchases separately, then in 2015 the largest contract was the supply of GPON and ADSL routers to Rostelecom in the amount of about 780 million rubles ($14.5 million). In second and third place is a contract with MGTS for 430 million rubles and another contract with Rostelecom for 425 million rubles. In both cases, we are talking about the supply of subscriber GPON terminals.

In 2016, Huawei's largest agreement was a contract with Rostelecom for services for post-warranty maintenance of equipment and software in the amount of about 1.6 billion rubles. In second place is again the agreement with Rostelecom, but already for the supply of subscriber broadband access equipment (about 1 billion rubles or $16.7 million). The third largest contract in 2016 was an agreement with Sberbank for the supply of network equipment with a total value of 944 million rubles.

New CEO

On May 24, 2016, Aiden Wu was appointed CEO of Huawei in Russia. In this position, he will determine the business strategy and lead the company's activities in the Russian Federation. Among the main tasks facing him in his new post are strengthening the market position of three business groups of the company in Russia (Carrier Business Group, Enterprise Business Group and Consumer Business Group), offering customers innovative solutions, as well as strengthening and developing relations with key partners and customers.

2015

Huawei goes to Gazprom with Russian-assembled products

Gazprom avtomatizatsiya, Gazprom's main integrator, will gradually localize the production of Huawei uninterruptible power supplies ( UPS ) at its site in Kaliningrad, the company told TAdviser in December 2015. Locally produced Huawei UPSs, as well as Gazprom avtomatizatsiya 's own energy equipment, are planned to be used by Gazprom as part of import substitution.

"In the near foreseeable future, the energy equipment of our production will replace similar imported equipment at Gazprom's facilities," Gazprom Automation told TAdviser. - Kaliningrad enterprises "Gazprom avtomatizatsiya" are one of the largest suppliers of energy equipment in the gas market. The experience gained makes it possible to localize UPS production at the lowest cost and in the shortest possible time. "

According to company representatives, in the future it is planned to expand the range of Huawei products produced at the facilities of Gazprom avtomatizatsiya. The agreements with the Chinese company also provide for the expansion of the use of its equipment in Gazprom avtomatizatsiya projects in the field of power and automation.

The partnership with Huawei "Gazprom avtomatizatsiya" established within the framework of the program of import substitution and development of new types of products for fuel and energy complex enterprises implemented by the company.

"Given the modern geopolitical realities and calls of the Russian government to reduce the dependence of Russian manufacturers on suppliers from countries that have announced sanctions against the Russian Federation, we, of course, are actively working on the implementation of the import substitution program. Huawei solutions and equipment do not yet occupy a large share in our production, but it is planned to expand the range of equipment used, "say Gazprom avtomatizatsiya.

The annual report of Gazprom avtomatizatsiya for 2014 indicated that in 2015 it is planned to carry out joint measures to study the issues of localizing the production of Huawei equipment on the basis of the company's subsidiaries. " In the fall of 2014, Gazprom avtomatizatsiya received^[21], an authorized partner of Huawei Enterprise Business Group (a division of Huawei focused on the corporate market segment). Then, among other things, the parties agreed to jointly participate in the implementation of projects in the field of creating technological communication systems and regional data transmission networks for Gazprom's subsidiaries. The possibilities of organizing the production of communication equipment were also discussed.

In the fall of 2015, Gazprom avtomatizatsiya and Huawei Enterprise Business Group signed an agreement^[22] on scientific and technical cooperation. It covers activities in such areas as equipment and software used in the construction of computer complexes and data transmission networks, in the construction of primary communication networks, equipment and software of audio and video conferencing systems, information protection systems . Cooperation also involves the organization of joint solutions with Gazprom avtomatizatsiya and, if necessary, the adaptation of Huawei software to the technological needs of the company.

Gazprom avtomatizatsiya told TAdviser that in addition to energy equipment, their import substitution program covers linear telemechanics systems, autonomous power supplies, packaged electrochemical protection devices, fire protection system controllers, ultrasonic flowmeters, etc. The company says that all products are in demand on the market of Gazprom Group companies.

MegaFon loan of $300 million for the purchase of Huawei equipment

In early December MegaFon , he announced the signing of two loan agreements with the China China Development Bank (CDB) for a total amount of $600 million. Under one of these agreements, the operator will receive a loan of $300, which will be spent on the purchase of telecommunications equipment Huawei for the construction of new networks and the modernization of existing infrastructure.

Agreement with USC

In May 2015 , the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) and Huawei signed a partnership agreement on cooperation. It became part of the documents signed as part of joint events between President Vladimir Putin and the Chairman of the PRC, who visited Moscow on an official visit.

The agreement enshrines the mutual interest of USC and Huawei in the field of scientific and technical cooperation. The document defines the principles and conditions necessary for negotiations and joint development of high-tech information and communication solutions that are potentially of mutual interest.

USC notes that if inventions are created as a result of joint activities, the parties will resolve the issues of registration of intellectual property rights, including with the signing of an appropriate agreement.

2014

Huawei server and DSS sales in Russia soared 387%

At the end of 2014, Huawei's network equipment business in Russia grew by 184%, and by servers and DSS - by 387%, said Jason Cao, head of the Huawei Enterprise Business Group in Russia, in March 2015. Business indicators were estimated in dollar terms, the company said.

The company noted that Huawei is moving away from perception in the market as a predominantly telecom vendor and is moving towards the position of a provider of integrated IT infrastructure. Huawei partly explains such high sales growth rates for IT solutions by the fact that it began to actively develop this very direction in Russia not so long ago: 3-4 years ago. In addition to network and IT equipment, the corporate unit also includes the direction of unified communications solutions and solutions for deploying communication networks.

Another reason for the high growth rates of corporate business in 2014 in Huawei is called increased work with the partner network. At the end of 2014, the number of partners in this area at Huawei exceeded 200 companies. The volume of business by key partners grew by 250%. The company notes that "an increasing number of market leaders are choosing Huawei as a strategic provider of ICT solutions."

The growth in sales was also influenced by the exchange rate on import substitution, which became especially relevant in Russia in 2014 due to Western sanctions. Maria Lobanova, director of the Huawei Enterprise Russia partner department, told TAdviser that this has become one of the factors that favor growth.

Lobanova found it difficult to estimate how many percent of the growth was brought by this particular aspect, but noted in a conversation with TAdviser that there are quite a few projects in which customers switch from American equipment to Huawei equipment. This mainly applies to government organizations, because in the commercial sector, customers are more free to choose a supplier, she said.

According to Lobanova, as of March 2015, the company already has about 200 different projects in the corporate direction in various stages of development. The names of large new customers in the company chose not to disclose prematurely.

By 2015, the largest Huawei customers in Russia were Sberbank, with which a strategic cooperation agreement was signed in October 2014 , VTB ( an agreement in November 2014 ), and Russian Railways (May 2014). As of early 2015, Huawei is cooperating with 23 federal and 10 regional authorities in Russia, according to Jason Cao.

As of 2014, the company has three distributors of corporate solutions in Russia : Landata, Merlion and Treolan. The first of them, in particular, in February reported more than twice the growth in sales of Huawei corporate solutions and a 20 percent increase in the number of partners who regularly buy this type of product from it.

Speaking about plans for the development of corporate business in Russia in 2015, the company notes that a significant emphasis will be placed on the further development of the partner network, including in the regions. According to Huawei's plans, over the year the number of its local partners in this area should exceed 400 companies, and in 2016 - 600 companies.

Jason Cao told TAdviser that by the end of 2015, the company expects at least 100% business growth in DSS and server and at least 100% in network equipment. In a conversation with a portal representative, he noted that in fact the growth may be much higher, but due to the fact that the growth of 2014 was largely due to the novelty of the corporate direction as such, the company admits lower indicators for its growth in the next year.

According to Jason Cao, in 2015, Huawei's strategic marketing budget for the development of corporate business in Russia is $8.5 million. The global budget for these purposes is about $50 million. Huawei notes that a significant part of this amount is allocated to Russia, since it is one of the strategic markets for the company. Of the funds allocated to Russia, approximately 50% will be directed to direct work with partners and joint events. About 30% will be directed to expanding the staff of the Huawei Enterprise division, and 20% will be expenses for other needs.

Agreements with a number of large companies

In May 2014, President Vladimir Putin visited China. Following this visit, Russia and China made a joint statement that the countries will increase the effectiveness of cooperation in high-tech sectors and deepen ties in the field of science and technology.

Soon after, Huawei and Russian Railways signed an agreement on scientific and technical cooperation . The cooperation of the companies involves the joint implementation of such projects as the development and modernization of wireless networks of professional technological communication of the GSM-R standard, broadband radio communication of the LTE standard (eLTE, LTE-R), audio and video conferencing systems, including high definition, for the needs of Russian Railways.

It is also envisaged that companies will interact in the development, development and modernization of computer systems, data transmission networks for the technological needs of Russian Railways, primary communication networks of Russian Railways using spectral channel multiplexing technology and IP technology.

A cooperation agreement was also signed between Huawei and Rostelecom. Representatives of the operator then noted that the agreement would help him "to quickly build high-speed fiber-optic communication networks in order to provide the company's users with an unlimited range of modern services and multimedia content anywhere in the country."

In September 2014, a cooperation agreement with Huawei was concluded by the state-owned company Avtodor. The parties noted the desire to initiate cooperation in the field of supply and implementation of modern solutions, systems and equipment for the purpose of information and communication support of the company's roads. In addition, it is planned to cooperate in the implementation of projects that ensure the creation of a unified integrated traffic management system and toll collection on Avtodor roads, as well as information exchange in order to summarize world and Russian experience, mutually beneficial technology transfer and increase the efficiency of innovation activities.

In October 2014, a cooperation agreement was also signed with Sberbank. It establishes direct relations between Sberbank and Huawei and allows Sberbank to buy equipment from the vendor directly. In addition, the bank will act as a financial partner of the vendor in promoting his products on the market of the Russian Federation and the CIS.

"Until recently, Sberbank used high-tech equipment mainly from American and European companies," German Gref commented on the agreement . - We continue and develop cooperation with them, while paying attention to alternative manufacturers and alternative supply channels. The conclusion of this agreement will allow Sberbank to receive high-quality equipment at the best price. "

Chong Cao is the new head of Enterprise in Russia

In March 2014, Huawei announced that Cao Chong was appointed head of Huawei Enterprise's Huawei Enterprise division in Russia. As TAdviser was specified in the Huawei press service, Liu Ming, who headed Huawei Enterprise in Russia as CEO since 2011, is moving to a different position. Chong Cao recently moved to Russia from the UK.

2011

Launch in Russia of sales of phones under its own brand

In 2011, it became known that Huawei was launching phones under its^[23] brand name in Russian retail^[23]. She used to sell tubes here only through operators and under their brands.

Until 2011, Huawei partners Russia in the direction of phones were exclusively operators -, MTS"," VimpelCom"," Megaphone"." Sky link Huawei decided to sell phones under its brand, inspired by the rapid growth in sales, smartphones says Alexei Gromakov, marketing director of its Russian office. Negotiations are underway, in particular, with "" and Euroset"Svyaznoy."

President of Euroset Alexander Malis and representative of Svyaznoy Elena Nogotkova confirmed this, adding that there are no agreements yet. Nevertheless, Huawei expects to enter the top five smartphone suppliers to Russia by the end of 2011, and in three years - to take 3rd place, says Gromakov, citing successful sales of "operator" tubes. He does not name the numbers. Third place in sales of Huawei smartphones shines hardly, Malis doubts.

In 2010, Huawei imported about 80,000 smartphones to Russia for operators, and this year it will sell about 100,000 through them and the same number through independent retail, estimates Eldar Murtazin, a leading analyst at Mobile Research Group.

Megafon offers a number of Huawei devices under its brand: smartphones running Android, budget 3G phones, routers, photo frames, says the operator's representative Karen Asoyan. It has sold more than 100,000 such devices in the past year. MTS spokeswoman Valeria Kuzmenko named only the share of Huawei phones in the mono-brand line of this operator - 20%.

Production of equipment at Angstrom

On June 8, 2011, Angstrom and Huawei announced the signing of a cooperation agreement and the start of a joint project for the production of telecommunications equipment in Zelenograd near Moscow. The agreement signed by Wang Kexiang, General Director of Technical Company Huawei LLC, and Alexei Tabolkin, President of NGO Angstrom, provides for the development of mutually beneficial scientific and technical cooperation in the field of microelectronics, the creation of joint production of electronic equipment and telecommunication equipment intended, among other things, for building LTE networks, as well as the sale of finished products to telecom operators and corporate clients in the Russian Federation.

As part of the agreement, Angstrom will produce equipment under the Huawei brand on its own production base that meets modern world standards. In addition to contract production, as part of the exchange of technological potential, companies will jointly develop solutions in the field of telecommunications and communications.

At the first stage of the technological partnership, Angstrom will produce the following Huawei equipment:

• LTE base stations,
• DWDM equipment (OSN6800 and OSN1800),
• access equipment (MA5600T and МА5603Т),
• IP-switch (S2300 и S3300 + S5300),
• RRL equipment (RTN series),
• operator routers (NE40/NE80/NEx series).

The production, the design capacity of which is up to 10,000 products per year, will be commissioned in the IV quarter of 2011. As part of the project, Angstrom plans to invest about 400 million rubles in production in 2011 alone, and by 2013 it will open additional production facilities in a special economic zone in Zelenograd.

For its part, Huawei will provide unique developments and technologies, train Angstrom specialists and install a product quality control system. This will allow the company to expand its presence in the Russian market through new distribution opportunities for its products, fulfilling the licensing requirements of key customers, as well as making the logistics of its supplies more efficient. Huawei traditionally tries to make the maximum contribution to the development of the economy in the countries of presence, and also pays great attention to the high-quality localization of its solutions.

Wang Kexiang, General Director of Technical Company Huawei LLC, noted: "Russia is a priority region for Huawei. A joint project with Angstrom will launch the largest production of Huawei solutions in the Russian Federation. This will allow the company to expand its range through localization of solutions, gain new distribution opportunities and strengthen its competitive advantage in the Russian market. "

"The partnership with Huawei is a unique opportunity for Angstrom to develop its own competence in the production of communication equipment. In the process of complicating localization, we plan to gradually change imported microelectronics to Russian in the assembled equipment. And let's start with the integration of a single-chip microprocessor with a navigation function/developed GLONASSGPS at Angstrom into Huawei equipment, "said Alexei Tabolkin, President of Angstrom NGO.

2001: Opening of a training center in Moscow together with MTUSI

In 2001, together with the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUSI), Huawei opened a Training Center in Moscow, which provides training on all major types of Huawei equipment.

1997: Start of work in Russia

Huawei has been operating in Russia since 1997.

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