HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES – FACTSHEET I.

Corporate Information

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Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. With its three business units Carrier, Enterprise and Consumer, Huawei offers network infrastructure, cloud computing solution and devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs.

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Huawei is active in more than 170 countries and has over 150,000 employees of which more than 70,000 are engaged in research and development (R&D). More than one third of the world population and more than half of the German population use, directly or indirectly, Huawei technology.

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In 2013, Huawei recorded revenues of US$ 39.5 billion (11.6% growth compared to the previous year). More than US$ 5 billion were invested in research and development (12.8% of the annual revenue in 2013). Over the past ten years, Huawei has invested almost US$ 25 billion in research and development.

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Among Huawei’s customers are 45 of the world's top 50 telecom operators and one third of the world’s population uses Huawei technologies.

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In 2013, Huawei was the third-largest provider of Smartphones worldwide with a market share of 4.9%.

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In October 2014, Huawei was the first Chinese brand ranked among the top 100 world’s best brands by Interbrand.

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Huawei is a privately run company, owned entirely by its employees.

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Huawei’s headquarters is in Shenzhen, China. The company was founded by Mr. Ren Zhengfei in 1987.

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Under the rotating CEO system, Ken Hu and Guo Ping and Eric Xu take turns as actingCEO for six-month stints since 2011. Ms. Sun Yafang is chairwoman of the board of directors.

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Huawei in Europe By opening a R&D center in Stockholm (Sweden) in 2000, Huawei began its activities in the European market that has meanwhile become the second home market for Huawei.

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In the meantime, Huawei has more than 7,700 employees in Europe, 65% of whom are local staff working in 43 offices.

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850 employees work in the 17 European Huawei R&D centers that are distributed over eight member states.

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In 2013, Huawei recorded revenues worth US$ 5.2 billion in Europe. The purchasing volume in Europe amounted US$ 3.4 billion in 2014 and is likely to increase to more than US$ 4.0 billion in 2015.

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Huawei filed 1077 new patents at the European Patent Office in 2013 and is thus ranked eleventh in Europe. Globally, Huawei comes in fourth among the top patent applicants.

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As one of the first Chinese companies, Huawei signed cross-licensing agreements with Western companies. Every year, Huawei pays approximately US$ 300 million in license fees for the legitimate use of patent technology.

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The Western European headquarters is located in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Mr. Kevin Tao is President of Huawei Western Europe.

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Huawei in Germany Huawei is active in the German market since 2001 with more than 1,700 employees at 18 locations. It is the biggest Chinese company in Germany.

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The company has a broad customer base including Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Telefónica and E-Plus.

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Huawei is partner of the Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica in the LTE rollout and in the development of internet access for rural areas.

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With its technology, Huawei is an important partner in the implementation of the federal government’s broadband strategy.

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Huawei Germany also puts a strong emphasis on R&D. For this reason it has established cooperations with a number of renowned universities and research institutions, including RWTH Aachen and various Fraunhofer-Institutes. Moreover, the headquarters of Huawei’s European Research Centre (ERC) with its 17 research facilities all over Europe is located in Munich.

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Since 2006, Huawei participated in more than 30 collaborative research projects involving a total of 19 different institutions.

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Huawei is a committed partner of the German political and economic community, amongst others through its engagement within BITKOM (Federal Association for Information Technology,Telecommunications and New Media), VATM (Association of Telecommunications and Value-Added Service Providers), BREKO (Association of “broadband communication”), BUGLAS (Association “glass fibre connection”), eco (Association of the German Internet Industry), the German Broadband Initiative, as well as Europäische Bewegung (European Movement), Allianz für Cyber-Sicherheit (“Alliance for Cyber Security”), the German Economic Council, the IT-Summit, and Initiative D21.

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The company wants to contribute to bridging the digital divide in Germany and promotes the responsible handling of new media. For this purpose, it is regularly publishing, together with Initiative D21, a study on the mobile internet use in Germany.

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In order to support mobile learning and working, Huawei established a school cooperation and provided school classes in Berlin and Darmstadt with tablet PCs. In this context, Huawei initiated a partnership with the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Education in autumn 2014, to test digital learning resources in Chinese education. The project is accompanied by the Ruhr-University Bochum and has already been implemented in two schools in Dortmund and Essen.

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Moreover, Huawei seeks to foster the dialogue and cultural exchanges between Germany and China. In order to provide a factual basis for discussion, Huawei published the study “Germany and China – perception and reality” for the second time in February 2014. The study was conducted in cooperation with GIGA (German Institute of Global and Area Studies) and TNS Emnid.

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Among the many activities of Huawei to foster the German-Chinese dialogue are also its participation in the German-Chinese business network (DCW) and the Chinaforum Bayern.

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With its student programme “China Insights” Huawei enables students from German universities to gain cultural, economic, and linguistic knowledge in China and to get insights into the biggest private company in China.

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Since 2013, Huawei is Champion Partner of Borussia Dortmund and supplies their arena – the biggest German stadium – with a WLAN network for more than 80,000 visitors.

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Since July 2012, SAP and Huawei and collaborate in form of a strategic partnership. Together they offer, amongst other services, Enterprise solutions for SAP HANA. The cooperation will be extended to the areas of “Smart City” and “Bring your own Device” (BYOD).

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Huawei also entered a strategic cooperation with Siemens CVC aiming for the development of end-to-end solutions in the area of communications technologies for the railway sector (GSM-R solutions).

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As the first Chinese business company, Huawei opened its Berlin representative office in November 2011.

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Head of Huawei Germany is Toni Cheng (CEO Huawei Technologies Germany GmbH). Walter Haas serves as CTO and Ulf Feger is the responsible Cyber Security Officer (CSO). th

13 November 2014