KYIV. Feb 23 (Interfax-Ukraine) – China’s Huawei Technologies Co, ranking third in the world in terms of sales of smartphones, intends by the end of 2017 to open a research center in Kyiv, according to a press release from the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.
“Huawei has significant experience in implementing digital technology and we want to cooperate with Ukraine, because it has a great potential. This can be cloud solutions for medicine, e-governance, urban security, housing and utilities services (Smart House projects) and other sectors,” Huawei President for Central Asia and the Caucasus Liu Hongyun said at a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv.
According to him, Ukraine has a great potential in the development of digital projects and technologies. The foreign expert said the country can realize a digital leap in the use of digital opportunities, but for this it needs to improve the efficiency of using radio frequencies, implement 4G communications, simplify licensing procedures for the use of micro base stations widely used in the EU.
Huawei is a global leader in the field of information and communications technologies. The company’s products are sold in more than 170 countries. The company has 16 research centers around the world.
