Huawei has not slackened in the new year and is still actively promoting the construction of 5G and expanding the 5G market. According to Xinhua News Agency, Huawei won the first 5G order in Africa and will cooperate with Zambian operator MTN to establish a 5G pilot in Zambia to prepare for the subsequent construction of 5G.
African countries like Zambia have limited options because of limited funding. Therefore, it can be speculated that Huawei has basically won the 5G market in Zambia in the future. So, expanding the market to Africa and winning 5G orders in Zambia is a good thing for Huawei?
Going further is still a helpless move
For historical reasons, the development of African countries, both economically and educationally, lags behind the vast majority of countries in the world, which has led many people to look down on countries like Zambia. These people will think, even if they get an order from Zambia, what will happen? To what extent can Zambia's strength build 5G?
Huawei's expansion of the market to Africa looks like a helpless move, because Huawei's 5G market has been severely restricted. The United States put Huawei on the sanctions list, and together with other allies to jointly target Huawei, resulting in Huawei's original cooperation targets have defaulted, not only gave up continued cooperation with Huawei to promote the development of domestic 5G, but also dismantled the domestic Huawei communication equipment and introduced other communication providers.
In the mobile phone market, there is such a sentence: a Huawei has fallen, fattening Apple, Xiaomi and other mobile phone manufacturers. In fact, the communication market is similar, although Huawei has not fallen with the technical advantages of 5G, but the loss of its market has still allowed Ericsson, Nokia and so on to eat enough.
However, these countries that have given up cooperation with Huawei do not have good fruit to eat, after all, Lao Mei only uses them to target Huawei, and will not be responsible for the losses they cause. In the United Kingdom, for example, it plans to spend $700 million to dismantle Huawei equipment at home and then replace the equipment of other communicators, not taking into account the subsequent losses caused by the dismantling of Huawei equipment. According to expert speculation, the FINAL LOSS IN THE UK COULD BE AROUND £2 billion.
In addition to economic losses, there are more negative effects of dismantling Huawei equipment. First of all, it will affect the British people's Internet experience, which does not need to be explained, communication equipment are dismantled, the network is not affected that it is really strange; secondly, it will affect the construction of 5G in the United Kingdom, and now all countries are accelerating the construction of 5G networks, but the United Kingdom is here to dismantle and replace communication equipment, which is undoubtedly a drag on the construction of 5G; finally, it will also have a great impact on the credibility of the United Kingdom, business is about credibility, like the United Kingdom, the future partners will be wary. Therefore, violating the cooperation with Huawei is actually harming others and harming themselves, and hurting each other.
However, from an objective point of view, the loss of Huawei's 5G market is indeed a fact that cannot be ignored. In the past two years, Huawei's consumer decline has been serious, and now the 5G market has shrunk a lot. In this way, Huawei's choice to invest in 5G in the African market seems to be a helpless move.
It's actually a step further
Although it may seem like a helpless move, it is actually a step further for Huawei. Although Huawei has lost a lot of European and North American markets, its achievements in 5G are real. Because it has a large number of 5G patents in its hands, Huawei can completely charge a large number of patent fees. And there is also a large number of 5G markets in China, and Huawei can return a lot of blood through the Chinese market.
All in all, although Huawei's 5G market has declined, it has not yet reached the time of life and death, so Huawei does not need to be forced to make a choice because of the survival problem.
In addition, Huawei's market to Africa, the benefits are also many. First of all, the economic benefits, although Africa's own conditions limit the rapid development of 5G, but it is not that Africa can not develop 5G, but this is destined to be an investment that takes a long time to get a return; secondly, this is also conducive to Huawei to open up more African markets, if the cooperation between Huawei and Zambia can achieve good results, then it will certainly be easier for Huawei to develop the African market.
When the overall development of Africa catches up, Huawei can also get more benefits. Finally, in favor of Huawei's image, as an operator, Huawei is actually a business, and the business is to provide better services to customers, rather than discriminating against customers. Huawei's ability to gain more markets in Africa shows that Huawei does not discriminate. Moreover, big fish are fish, small fish are also fish, who can guarantee that small fish can not grow into big fish?
Therefore, the cooperation between Huawei and Zambia is not a helpless move. On the contrary, this is still a step further for Huawei, which is conducive to Huawei's future development. At the bottom of the list, Huawei, as a technology company, has a large number of 5G patents, as long as the technology is in hand, Huawei is not afraid of not being able to eat.
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