Comments on: Huawei's Grand Ambitions Made Clear With BT CTO Hire

By: Madhu

Madhu — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:26:26 +0000

How long can Huawei be funded by the Chinese government. At some point it has to turn around and be profitable. The source of the growth is unending cash like the dot.coms. Its going to hit a wall somewhere.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:56:44 +0000

The Brazilian Mobile Lidership has part of Huawei growth in CALA

By: Habib Ullah Khan

Habib Ullah Khan — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:30:25 +0000

Huawei is a phenomenal competitor. We see them in our emerging market in Optical and they pretty much clean house. Its growth is phenomenal but it does need to grow its services operation to get the kind of recognition and traction and margins it needs. So a high profile hiring to manage and grow that business would be far more scary for the western companies.

Its financing offers to customers are like dodgy credit card debt to me and servicing that debt even if all good should cross a billion a year soon. Huawei is not going anywhere though. Cisco and Alcatel just need to fight a holding battle in core and move up the value chain.

By: Rohan Pinto

Rohan Pinto — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:46:12 +0000

just because it sprouted from china, i’d have to differ on the “letting china define markets and standards” statement…

By: Rohan Pinto

Rohan Pinto — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:36:52 +0000

Ah ! – it all makes a LOT of sense now.. I was wondering about this for a while .. ;-)

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:46:17 +0000

Alex

Thanks for the comment. I think it is only a matter of time before we are letting China define the market and standards.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:43:49 +0000

Very good post. I currently sell into the CALA telco market and have been completely amazed with the traction Huawei is gaining. Thank goodness I sell software and not hardware.