{"id":12077,"date":"2012-05-10T07:16:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T05:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=12077"},"modified":"2012-05-10T10:55:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T08:55:59","slug":"huawei-expects-device-sales-to-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/12077\/huawei-expects-device-sales-to-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei expects device sales to boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Huawei Technologies Co Ltd\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1651-Huawei-Technologies\">Huawei Technologies Co Ltd<\/a>, the world&#8217;s No.2 telecom equipment maker that has diversified into making mobile phones, expects sales of its consumer devices to rise to $9 billion this year from $6.8 billion last year, a senior executive said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei Mobile, made the comments during an industry conference in Beijing. Huawei&#8217;s consumer devices business group mainly sells wireless cards, mobile phones and tablet PCs.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei said earlier it aimed to ship more than 100 million mobile phones this year, including 60 million smartphones to increase its global market share.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei expects consumer device sales, which includes handsets, to reach $30 billion in five years, from $7 billion now, becoming as big a revenue driver as its flagship telecommunications equipment business.<\/p>\n<p>The Shenzhen-based company is the world&#8217;s No.6 mobile phone maker, ranking behind other bigger players such as <a title=\"Samsung Electronics\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1813-Samsung\">Samsung Electronics<\/a>, <a title=\"Nokia\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1650-Nokia-Corporation\">Nokia<\/a> and <a title=\"ZTE Corp\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1676-ZTE-Corporation\">ZTE Corp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world&#8217;s No.2 telecom equipment maker that has diversified into making mobile phones, expects sales of its consumer devices to rise to $9 billion this year from $6.8 billion last year, a senior executive said on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,1635,187,52,705],"class_list":["post-12077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-huawei","tag-nokia","tag-samsung","tag-zte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12093,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077\/revisions\/12093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}