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In addition to the strong development of the smartphone business, Huawei has also achieved quite good results in the global communications field. Especially with the advent of the 5G era, Huawei, which has taken the lead in the field of 5G communications, has enjoyed a lot of development dividends.
As early as the 3G and 4G era, Huawei has shown a certain momentum of development in global communication technology, and has established cooperative relations with many European countries with a series of cost-effective products. The continuous commercialization of 5G highlights a series of advantages that Huawei has in communication technology.
Then, as Huawei showed a fierce momentum of development in 5G technology, it became the focus of global attention. Under the impetus of Laomei, many European countries have given up 5G cooperation with Huawei, and even Western countries led by the United Kingdom have spent huge sums of money to dismantle Huawei's 5G base stations that have been completed in China.
The French front foot demolishes the 5G base station
Previously, Huawei has maintained a good cooperative relationship with relevant Departments in France. Among the 16 research institutes deployed by Huawei around the world, France alone occupies 3 seats.
In the face of friendly cooperation with France, at the end of 2020, Huawei even said that it will spend 1.5 billion yuan to build an overseas 5G equipment factory in France.
There is no doubt that Huawei's R&D center and equipment factory in France have brought considerable economic benefits to France to a certain extent. However, since March 2021, communication companies represented by The French wireless telephone company and Iggy Telecom have begun to dismantle Huawei's 5G equipment.
This means that under pressure from the United States, France has also joined the ranks of dismantling Huawei equipment. Although compared with the simple and rude behavior of the British side to completely dismantle Huawei equipment, a series of measures taken by France are more euphemistic, but they have also caused certain losses to Huawei.
The back foot admits in another area
It is worth mentioning that France, which thought it was forced to dismantle Huawei's 5G equipment under certain pressure, has chosen to take sides with Lao mei. But unexpectedly, the French front foot has just dismantled the 5G base station, and the back foot has been admitted in another field.
Recently, it was reported that France announced that local operators will dismantle 3,000 huawei wires and will not re-cooperate with Huawei in the next 7 years, and after starting a new round of cooperation with Huawei in the field of submarine cables. It is reported that huawei's cooperation with France has received an order worth 234 billion yuan.
This time France and Huawei signed a new round of orders, in addition to the event itself to surprise consumers, Huawei also has a layout in the field of submarine cables, in fact, it is also unexpected by many Chinese.
For a long time, although Huawei's impression of the Chinese people is multi-point blossoming, most people's cognition of Huawei stays in the excellent development of Huawei's mobile phone business and Huawei, which started by communications, also has a perfect layout in the field of global communications. In recent years, Huawei's series of achievements in chip self-development and browsers have also been put on the surface.
Today, Huawei also has such a big advantage in submarine cables, can it attract France, which openly resists Huawei, to cooperate with it?
Huawei's layout in the field of submarine cables
In fact, in the minds of most people, Huawei has achieved a series of advantages in the fields of communications, mobile phone business, and even operating systems and chips, and has become a leader in the industry. However, Huawei's first international order is not in the above areas, but in submarine cables.
The author understands that the company that Huawei has reached cooperation with France this time is Huawei's "Huawei Ocean Co., Ltd." According to the data, Huawei Marine Co., Ltd. was founded by Huawei, but due to the poor operation of the company in the later period, Huawei sold part of the shares of Huawei Marine Co., Ltd. to Hengtong Optoelectronics in 2019.
However, although the current Huawei has no absolute control over Huawei Marine Co., Ltd., it is still the company's largest shareholder. Therefore, Huawei Naturally benefits from the cooperation between Huawei Marine Co., Ltd. and France in the submarine cable business.
Write at the end
According to data disclosed by industry insiders, Huawei Marine Co., Ltd. has made a series of achievements in the construction of submarine cable communication networks, which has successfully broken the monopoly of foreign capital in mainland-related businesses. At present, Huawei Marine Co., Ltd. has won 15% of the global market share in submarine cables, ranking among the world's fourth largest submarine cable engineering companies.
Nowadays, many European countries have abandoned cooperation with Huawei in 5G communication equipment under the instigation of Lao Mei. For these European countries, their calculation is that even without Huawei, they can cooperate with Ericsson and Nokia on 5G.
However, in terms of submarine cables, European countries with a big abacus are difficult to find alternatives, and France's "regression" is the best proof.