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Huawei imports its Chinese experience to Mexico

Carla Martínez| El Universal
11:39Wednesday 02 July 2014

Mark Xue Man, CEO of Huawei Mexico, said that the company will build more than 11,000 LTE sites in Mexico in the next three years. (Photo: YADIN XOLALPA / EL UNIVERSAL )

In an interview with EL UNIVERSAL, Mark Xue Man, CEO of Huawei Mexico, talked about the strategy followed by the company.

In China, information technology and communications represent 6.8% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to figures compiled by the consultancy Select in 2012.  

This is no coincidence, because for the government of the Asian country, telecommunications and technology are key to the country's development, said Mark Xue Man, CEO of Huawei Mexico.  

"The concern (in China) was that each community could connect to Internet with mobile or landline phones," said Xue Man in an interview with EL UNIVERSAL.  

In several Asian countries, including China, strategies were implemented to bring connectivity to remote communities that did not have access to telecommunications services.  

"Now farmers can sell their fruit through Internet, they have good products, fruits, vegetables and good prices. They obtain resources this way thanks to the government investment," he explained.  

He recalled that, according to World Bank figures, a 10% increase in the connectivity of a country contributes to a 1% increase in its GDP.  

Based on its experience in China, Huawei focuses its efforts in Mexico to offer smart phones at low prices in order to increase the number of people with access to mobile telecommunications and the Internet, and develops robust networks so that operators can provide quality services and support the increase in Internet traffic, Xue Man explained. 

"We invested 278 million dollars last year and this figure will increase by 10% this year, so we will spend more than 300 million dollars in local purchases and investments," the CEO said. 

Similarly, the company is open to participate in the public-private partnership proposed in the constitutional reform to develop and manage the infrastructure of the 700 MHz band, apt for broadband.  

"If the country decides to build in the 700 MHz band, we have the capacity and we want to be one of the candidates, one of the network providers," Xue Man said.
 
Last year Huawei sold over a million devices with Iusacell and other mobile phone companies, and it hopes to increase its sales of some of the cheapest telephones on the market.  

"The cheapest Huawei smartphone costs about 2000 pesos," (154 dollars) Xue Man said. 

About mobile telephone networks, Xue Man said that Huawei is a provider of Telcel, Telefónica México, Iusacell and Nextel of the 4G technology known as Long Term Evolution (LTE) that operators started offering in the country last year. 

"In the next three years we will build, establish more than 11,000 LTE sites in Mexico", the CEO of Huawei told EL UNIVERSAL.  

Finally, Man Xue said the development of the telecommunications industry in Mexico has been very good, and that Huawei considers that it has great potential for growth.

 

 



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