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Huawei Certified as a Top Employer in Europe for Fifth Consecutive Year

Huawei was recognized as a "Top Employer" in Europe for 2024. Huawei Europe as an employer with fantastic career development
This marks the fifth consecutive year the company has made opportunities on all levels. Huawei scores 15% above the total
the list compiled by Top Employers Institute, a leader in human of all Top Employers benchmarks." Being named a Top Employer
resources management certifications. In addition to being named by the Institute list is a recognition of Huawei's commitment to
a Top Employer in Europe, Huawei has also received individual talent across Europe and globally. The company has continued to
recognition in 16 European countries: Austria, Belgium, France, strengthen its talent development, recruitment and management
Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, practices in 2024. Lesley White, Deputy Vice President of Human
Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, and the UK. Top Resources, Huawei European Region said: "Talent is an essential
Employers Institute has certified more than 2,300 organizations in component of our business strategy in Europe and globally. We are
121 countries/regions that taken together, employ over 12 million pleased to be recognized as a Top Employer in Europe for the fifth
people worldwide. Patrik Rendel, Regional Manager DACH & CEE, time in a row. Huawei has been established in Europe for more
Top Employers Institute said: "Top Employers Institute recognizes than 20 years, and we realized that it was critical to our business
operations and success to demonstrate Huawei's cutting-edge
people management practices on a global platform. Through
this certification process, Huawei demonstrated how it looks
for the unique value in people and works with them in diverse
ways to ensure talent attraction, retention and development. We
will continue to create more opportunities to support talent in
Europe to develop their careers at Huawei." Huawei fosters an
environment that encourages innovation both within the company
across its European offices and globally, as well as in the broader
tech ecosystem in which it operates. The company has several
initiatives in this space. The ICT Academy is a partnership between
Huawei and universities that aims to share the company's cutting-
edge technologies with universities worldwide and cultivate new
ICT talents. Huawei also hosts Seeds for the Future, the company's
flagship program for digital skills cultivation, and the Huawei
Graduate Program, which places university graduates into roles at
Huawei to develop and grow their careers. The company recently
announced that the Europe edition of Seeds for the Future will be
held in Rome, Italy in 2024.

Huawei Expects to See Key Role for sub-3GHz FDD Bands in the 5.5G Era

Frequency division duplex (FDD) technology operating in the sub-3 such as , while cloud gaming, which has become a top ICT strategy
GHz frequency bands has a key role to play as services evolve into for operators in the Middle East, demands stable 40ms latency.
the era of 5.5G (5G Advanced), says Huawei. As technologies and The sub-3 GHz bands have rich uplink and downlink spectrum
applications such as RedCap are more widely deployed, attention
is not just focusing on the mid-bands around 6GHz and higher
frequencies such as mmWave to provide the capabilities needed
to support the more testing demands of 5.5G, says the company.
The deep and wide coverage and large uplink experience provided
by the sub-3 GHz frequency bands, which have helped global LTE
and 5G operators achieve high levels of satisfaction, will continue
to be in demand in the era of 5.5G, according to Fang Xiang, VP
of Huawei wireless network product line. These bands which
were the foundation of 4G have attributes which can equally well
serve the needs of operators in the 5G era and beyond. As new
service scenarios place growing demands on network quality,
coverage, latency and reliability, FDD can be adapted to support
the new services for 5.5G, Fang told Developing Telecoms during
MWC 2024. In the 5.5G era, networks need to provide services
with multi-dimensional capabilities of large uplink, low latency, and
deep and wide coverage, says Fang. The demands of applications

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