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Abu Dhabi: Huawei Technologies, China's biggest telecom-equipment maker, agreed to share industry trends with etisalat as part of a partnership, the firms said.
"This agreement will help etisalat to explore unexploited market opportunities, drive data revenues," Ahmad Abdul Karim Julfar, chief operating officer at etisalat, said.
As part of the agreement, Huawei will share telecom industry trends and best practices with etisalat, the second-largest Arab telecom company by market value, according to the two companies.
The Chinese firm will devise an internet strategy, and develop reports and recommendations for etisalat and its units, they said.
Huawei also said it expects India revenue to rise by about two-thirds to $1 billion in 2008.
George Huang, chief operating officer of Huawei Technologies India, a wholly owned unit, said it had more than tripled its revenue in 2007 to $600 million from $186 million in 2006.
"We were not so satisfied with our performance two years back," he said. "But from last year, it has improved a lot. This year, I think we will continue to keep very fast growth."
Huawei, which got about 72 per cent of its sales from outside China in 2007, expects its global sales contracts to rise 38 per cent to $22 billion in 2008, up from $16 billion in 2007, its US head of marketing Charlie Chen said.
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