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Huawei Appoints David Shi as Middle East

Enterprise Business Group President

Driven by its commitment to help Shi led Huawei’s Enterprise Group in Saudi for a digital Middle East.” “Now more than
governments and industries with their Arabia as General Manager starting in 2017, ever, organizations are looking at their
digital transformation journeys across driving the company’s continued success ICT needs to help them to futureproof
the Middle East, Huawei has announced across the Kingdom. He has previously their operations, while also providing
the appointment of David Shi to the held the role of Marketing and Solution possibilities to keep things moving in the
position of Regional Enterprise Business Sales Vice President for Huawei Middle current challenging times,” said Shi. “I
Group (EBG) President. The move is East (2015-2017) and CTO of Huawei am eager to step into this role at Huawei
effective immediately and builds on the Saudi Arabia (2013-2015). Speaking EBG and work with more of our customers
company’s plans to help shape the future on the announcement, Charles Yang, across the Middle East to cultivate new
of digital infrastructure using advanced President of Huawei Middle East, said: “In opportunities. The trust of these partners
ICT solutions. Shi has more than a decade the enterprise business, we continue to and customers has been essential to our
of experience working within the Middle be fully committed to our ‘Huawei Inside’ company’s success, and will continue
East starting from 2007, and over 15 strategy, collaborating with our partners to be moving forward.” As of 2019, more
years of experience in the information and and sharing the value of digitalization than 700 cities and 228 Fortune Global
communications technology (ICT) sector, with our customers. Today our Enterprise 500 companies have chosen Huawei as
including technical sales, marketing, and Business Group serves a diverse range of their digital transformation partner. In
business development. Having been with public and private sector organizations addition, Huawei's enterprise business has
Huawei since 2005, he has held several and their requirements. Someone with as a network of more than 28,000 partners
roles for the company based in the region, strong a background and solid experience worldwide, which contribute up to 86%
helping the Huawei Enterprise Business in the region as David is ideal to head of the global revenue of the business
Group to support the digital transformation this division—leading the growth of not group. Huawei has already established
plans of its customers across various only our Enterprise Business Group, but 13 OpenLabs worldwide to focus on the
industries. Prior to his current position, helping businesses to lay the foundations enterprise market. At these OpenLabs,
Huawei supports partners in joint solution
innovation, marketing, talent cultivation,
finance, supply chains, and IT systems to
continuously strengthen their capabilities
and drive their digital transformation
to achieve success. “In the enterprise
business, Huawei follows a ‘Platform +
AI + Ecosystem’ strategy where we fully
leverage the potential of AI technology to
build platforms while creating a thriving
ICT ecosystem. I look forward to working
with our customers and partners to
embrace multiple new ICT technologies
that can bring digital to every person, home
and organization for a fully connected
intelligent world,” Shi added.

Huawei and China Telecom Deploy Book RRUs in Shenzhen

Huawei and China Telecom have completed reducing existing issues with rollouts 5G Book RRUs, achieving peak downlink
the rollout of ‘hundreds’ of 5G C-Band Book in residential areas, where insufficient speeds of 1.2Gbps on commercial mobile
Radio Relay Units (RRUs) in Shenzhen, resources and site acquisition can be costly devices and using 100MHz of network
providing ‘significant improvements’ to and time-consuming. The technology, spectrum. The deployment has allowed
in-depth coverage and user experience which supplements macro-site base the cellco to meet capacity requirements in
in residential areas, the two companies stations, also allows providers to deploy ‘value hotspots’ in the city, such as school
announced in a joint statement. The 5G quickly, patch-up holes in coverage campuses, office buildings and scenic
lightweight Book RRUs enable rapid 5G and offload network traffic. Huawei and parks.
deployment, the two companies explained, China Telecom’s Shenzhen unit tested the
by utilizing walls and utility poles as sites, technology in December 2019 using 4T4R

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