October 10-17, 1999: ITU Telcom World, telecommunications exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland, Huawei participated in the exhibition as the only independent Chinese manufacturer to display GSM equipment, and since then launched the "Belt and Road" expedition.

Communication History Serialization 238- Huawei 23 years in Europe

October 10-17, 1999: Telecom Exhibition ITU Telcom World in Geneva, Switzerland, Huawei participated in the exhibition as the only independent Chinese manufacturer, displaying GSM devices, and since then launched the expedition of the "Belt and Road"

2000: Huawei established Europe's first research institute .

2001: Huawei began to cooperate with Alstom (French system integrator , which is famous for undertaking telecom integration projects in the entire "Romansland").

2002: , under the recommendation of Alstom, is the second largest fixed network operator behind , France Telecom , for the first time using Huawei's optical network equipment. Two years later, Huawei became one of Neuf’s five major equipment suppliers.

October 2003: Huawei obtained the CDMA450 project contract for the European telecom operator Inquam Company, and entered the CDMA450 mobile system market in Portugal, Germany, Romania , Sweden and other countries.

Netherlands Telfort and Huawei distributed base station story:

• 2003: The smallest operator in the Netherlands, Telfort, purchases a 3G license, hoping to develop a small 3G cabinet separately, and major manufacturers such as Nokia Ericsson ignore it. Huawei spent 8 months to develop distributed base station -The indoor part of the base station is made into a split air conditioner, the volume is only the size of a DVD, most of the functions are thrown outdoor

• December 8, 2004: Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Dutch Prime Minister Bao Kennedy attended the UMTS of Dutch mobile operators Telfort and Huawei The signing ceremony of the 3G project contract was jointly witnessed the first cooperation between China and the Netherlands in the telecommunications field, and Huawei's first commercial contract in Europe signed

• Not long after, the largest operator of the Netherlands, Royal Telecom (KPN), acquired Telfort, and Huawei paid a heavy price - The entire network equipment was thrown away. After this heavy blow, Huawei's European market expansion delayed for two years.

2004: Huawei won the bid for the communication equipment construction project of the Athens Olympics in Greece, making Huawei famous

2004: Huawei began to launch the " Oriental Express Plan " in Europe: cooperate with world-renowned consulting companies to conduct comprehensive evaluation and planning of its own brand, and create an international mainstream telecommunications manufacturer brand.

March 25, 2004: Huawei's first relocation of European headquarters:

Huawei moved its European headquarters from Frankfurt, Germany to Basingstoke in southeastern England ( Silicon Valley in the UK) , and announced that it would set up a new technology research and development center, setting the largest investment of Chinese companies in the UK.

2004: Huawei's sales in Europe cost US$200 million; in the first half of 2005, sales exceeded US$300 million

February 2005: Huawei exclusively won the bid for the NGN project of QSC, the largest telecom operator in Germany. QSC also announced that it will form a strategic partner with Huawei to build an NGN network covering more than 200 cities in Germany

Q12005: The German National Research Network Association, known for its strict technical requirements, chose Huawei as its network equipment supplier, and the two sides cooperated to build a national high-speed backbone optical transmission network covering the entire Germany.

June 7, 2005: Huawei and Royal Telecom Group KPN signed the first agreement to become the only supplier of its national backbone transmission network; on June 24, the second exclusive supply contract for CWDM/DWDM was signed, making Royal Telecom Group the largest full-business operator in the Netherlands. On February 28, the third contract was signed, and Huawei became the main supplier of core network equipment.

2005: Huawei demonstrated the solution for Vodafone high-speed rail communications, allowing Huawei to be invited to officially participate in the bidding for Vodafone's Greek , Spain and Germany's three countries' full-network IP replacement projects.

November 10, 2005: Huawei and Germany's second largest fixed-network telecom operator Arcor signed a contract to deploy the new generation of SDH optical transmission system in Berlin.Chinese President Hu Jintao and German President German President Kerr jointly witnessed the signing.

November 14, 2005: Huawei and telecom operator Telefónica ( Telecom ) officially signed an agreement at the Prime Minister's Office in Madrid, Spain. Telefónica and Huawei will cooperate in innovation and research and development in areas such as third-generation mobile communications 3G and digital home Digital Home (broadband IP).

December 2005: Huawei received Vodafone's first product operation order, with 10,000 data cards.

2005: Huawei's European Regional Department Management Team hopes to relocate Huawei's European Headquarters. Three disadvantages of the small town of Basingstoke in the UK: first, the cost is too high. Second, visa issues. Third, traffic is inconvenient

February 28, 2006: Royal Dutch Telecom (KPN Telecom N.V.) announced that it has signed an agreement with Huawei that Huawei will be the core network equipment supplier of KPN Dutch Mobile, and cooperate with KPN Dutch Mobile to build a 3G/2G core network covering the whole of the Netherlands. Huawei will provide a complete set of circuit domain core networks and packet domain core networks based on R4 soft switch.

July 2006: Huawei took over Vodafone Spain project and relocated 7,300 wireless base stations of existing network manufacturers within two and a half years. Subsequently, Huawei has become the exclusive wireless supplier for the entire network of Romania, Hungary and Greece

2006: Huawei's data card business has made rapid progress and entered the subnet in many countries. The success of the data card provides an opportunity for Huawei to help Vodafone build brand custom mobile phones

2006: Huawei and Vodafone signed a 3G mobile phone strategy memorandum - The landmark event in the development history of Huawei terminal . It has laid the foundation for Huawei to open up the European market and sign ODM contracts with other European operators, allowing Huawei's 3G terminal sales to double from just 500,000, and also allowing operator Vodafone to change its terminal procurement model, from dual private labels (Vodafone + manufacturer logo) to Vodafone's single brand logo.

2006: Huawei began mass sales of customized data cards

December 15, 2006 - January 2007: The second relocation of Huawei's European headquarters: migrated from the UK to Düsseldorf in Germany, and established Huawei branches in Munich , Frankfurt, Darmstadt and other places.

Huawei European Headquarters-Dusseldorf

February 2007: Huawei's first VDF-branded VDF customized by operator VDF, sales reached 1.5 million units, becoming the cornerstone of Huawei in the mobile terminal industry, with revenue exceeding US$500 million in 2007. In the following years, Huawei and VDF launched 2-3 cooperative mobile phones every year. In 2008 and 2009, it won the customized mobile phone ODM project of European operators of German and French Power Corporation.

Huawei manufactured mobile phones for Vodafone in 2008

2007: Huawei will build its first R&D center in Serges in northwest France. Subsequently, Huawei built two R&D centers in France to form almost all of Huawei's technology R&D and market services in France

January 2008: Huawei announced that it will cooperate with Bulgarian operator TransTelecom to deploy WiMAX16e commercial network in the 3.5GHz band

March 2008: O2 Germany chose to deploy its GSM/UMTS converged network in southern Germany based on Huawei SingleRAN solution, which covers major cities including Munich and Stuttgart .

2008: Huawei conquers the last fortress in Europe - Deutsche Telecom DT

December 2008: Germany O2 chose Huawei's fourth-generation base station (Single RAN), commercialized in June 2009, The world's first Single RAN network

January 15, 2009: Nordic and Baltic largest telecom operator TeliaSonera selected Huawei and deployed the world's first LTE commercial network in the Norwegian capital Oslo .

2009: Huawei European Supply Center was established in Hungary.Huawei's European Supply Center business covers 47 countries in five regions: Europe, Central Asia and North Africa. It undertakes the functions of Huawei to manufacture, distribute, transit and delivery of goods to the entire pan-European region. It supplies customers with wireless, microwave, optical network, access network, digital network and other mainstream Huawei products, providing 2-week and non-European 2-4-week supply services

September 2009 to July 2010: Huawei was finally selected as a 4G supplier by Vodafone Germany, transformed the entire network, and granted 60% share to enter core cities such as Munich and Berlin.

2009: Huawei and Vodafone signed an agreement to deepen the strategic partners of both parties; participated in the construction of core and backbone wireless networks and other subnets in Spain, Greece, Hungary and Romania, and worked together to develop LTE.

2009: Huawei helps Vodafone's multiple subnets deploy converged networks using SingleRAN solutions.

November 2009: Governor Jürgen Rüttgers, Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia, who is visiting China, visited Huawei's Shanghai R&D Center and signed a letter of intent with Huawei. Huawei will invest 20 million euros to set up an innovation center in Düsseldorf, recruit 200 engineers, and carry out scientific research cooperation with surrounding universities. The Innovation Center will be started in 2010.

November 10, 2009: Huawei announced that Telenor, one of the world's largest telecom operators, chose Huawei as the exclusive supplier of Norway's wireless side in the next six years, relocated and upgraded Telenor's entire 2G/3G network in Norway, and will eventually deploy a Europe's largest LTE commercial network to date covering the entire Norway.

2010: Huawei has 34 branches and 5,300 employees in Europe, with revenue of US$2.74 billion. The operator business has developed greatly, and enterprises and consumers have begun. But Huawei's brand image and construction in Europe are far behind its business.

May 2009 to January 2011: Huawei won projects in Germany, Italy and the UK. Among the four major European networks at the core of VDF, breaking through the records of friendly companies and entering each subnet, it becomes the main supplier. Huawei has also entered Hungary, Romania, , Czech , and Greece.

2011: Huawei successfully defeated 12 of the 15 major operators in Europe

November 23, 2011: " Huawei's decade of European " Hungary celebration party was held at the National Museum of Budapest

May 1, 2012: Huawei signed a memorandum of understanding on strategic cooperation in Budapest, Hungary, and spent US$1.5 billion to build a European logistics center in Hungary. Currently, Huawei has 37 representative offices, 6 R&D centers and 9 training centers in Europe, with R&D, service, training, production and sales businesses all over Europe; its employees are 7,000, of which more than 65% are local employees. On December 3, 2013, Huawei European Logistics Center in Hungary was officially put into operation.

2012: September Yu Chengdong forced the operator's ODM business. Affected by this, in 2012, the sales of Huawei mobile in Europe decreased by 60% compared with 2011.

2012: Huawei wireless network market share soared to 33%, ranking first in Europe. Before 2010, Huawei Wireless spent many years to gain a 9% share in the Western European market.

2012: Huawei in Europe

2021: Huawei signed a contract with Portuguese operator Optimus to provide GSM, UMTS and LTE network standard SingleRAN device

2012: Huawei began to sponsor a large number of football teams, Arsenal , AC Milan , Atletico Madrid , Dortmund , Ajax

2012: Huawei and Switzerland Sunrise signed a five-year telecommunications network management service contract for the first time.

2013: Huawei successfully knocked on the door to the European market with Ascend P6 and won the EISA European Best Consumer Smartphone Award that year, doubled Huawei's brand recognition.

2013: Huawei's order volume in the European corporate market increased by 00% year-on-year, far higher than the domestic growth rate.

Q2014: Huawei smartphone shipments in the European market increased by 120% year-on-year

2015: Huawei European Supply Center has two cooperative factories and a logistics center in Hungary, with a total production and warehousing area of ​​62,000 square meters. In 2015, import and export goods were US$3 billion, and the logistics throughput was 500,000 cubic meters. It created nearly 2,000 jobs for Hungary, with a cumulative investment of US$580 million, and indirectly contributed US$1.1 billion to local GDP.

March 12, 2015: Huawei was completed at the Huawei Aesthetics R&D Center in Paris, France. Currently, Huawei has 17 R&D institutions in Europe, distributed in eight countries: Belgium , Finland , France, Germany, Ireland , Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In France, in addition to the aesthetic research center, Huawei has four R&D centers: chip, mathematics, home terminal and wireless standards.

June 2015: Huawei and Vodafone global corporate business signed a memorandum of understanding to formally establish a new strategic alliance partnership, focusing on the European, Asia-Pacific and African corporate markets. According to this agreement, the two parties will jointly develop a series of corporate communication products and technical services to serve global corporate customers.

December 16, 2015: Huawei Western Europe Regional Ministry theme event "10 Years of Achieving Together" - an awards ceremony for serving Huawei Western Europe's local employees for ten years was held in Dussel, Germany.

2012 to 2015: Huawei mobile phones have a meager share of 5% in Europe

2016: signed a contract with Messi , as Huawei's global brand ambassador

2016: Huawei P9 is on the market. Huawei's market share in Europe instantly jumped from below 5% to 10%, and its profits were nearly five times higher than the previous year.

September 2016: Switzerland Sunrise announced that it had signed a 5-year IT management service contract with Huawei, covering all IT basic services. Huawei is responsible for Sunrise's IT infrastructure operation and maintenance, including servers, virtual machines, storage and networks, as well as platform operation and maintenance (Windows/Unix/DB) and office IT operation and maintenance.

November 2016: European photovoltaic giant BayWa signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with Huawei

2016: Huawei's sales revenue in Europe was 156.5 billion yuan, accounting for 30% of the total revenue, Huawei's largest overseas market.

February 24, 2017: German engineering and system integrator Wattkraft and Chinese inverter expert Huawei reached a 500 MW inverter supply framework protocol .

2017: Huawei mobile phones have a market share of nearly 15% in Europe

Early in 2018: P20 and P20 Pro two products were launched, winning hundreds of awards in Europe, rapidly increasing the popularity and reputation of Huawei mobile phones in Europe

April 2018: Huawei Joint Innovation Center in Paris

April 23, 2018: Huawei introduced the research and development results of its G solution in Madrid, the capital of Spain. This is Huawei's first stop for truck roadshows in 10 European countries with the theme of "5G is Coming".

Q2018: Huawei's market share in Western Europe, from 11.4% in the first quarter of 2017 to 24.8% in the second quarter of 2018

2018: Huawei released its flagship model Mate 20 series. Android Authority reported that the order volume of Mate 20 Pro within 10 days after the release of the sales was 40% more than the P20 Pro at the beginning of the year.

November 16, 2018: Huawei set up Information Security Laboratory in Bonn, Germany (the second largest political center in Germany), Information Security Laboratory

January 2019: Poland Officially called on EU to coordinate policies and formulate a common position on how to deal with the possible "security threat" caused by Huawei and whether Huawei should be excluded from the European market.

January 17, 2019: Oxford University confirmed that it has suspended Huawei's new donations and sponsorships

February 22, 2019: It is reported that Italian politicians have promoted Huawei's 5G ban

March 5, 2019: Huawei set up a new " European Cyber ​​Security Transparency Center " in Brussels, Belgium, and held an unveiling ceremony. The center will be a place to introduce the cybersecurity strategy and to test Huawei network equipment by communication companies in EU member states, and will also be used as an "international collaborative base for various research." Huawei Vice Chairman Hu Houkun said at the unveiling ceremony that all regulators and Huawei customers are welcome to make full use of this platform and establish verification-based trust. Huawei has three words ABC in network security, and three very simple principles: A, and does not assume anything. B. Don’t trust anyone. C. Verify all .

July 2019: Huawei in Europe: operated for 20 years, with more than 12,200 employees of , and developed with 140 European universities and research institutions. In 2018, Huawei purchased more than 5.6 billion euros of goods and services in Europe.

mid-October 2019: The German government confirmed that Huawei is not ruled out for the construction of 5G network in Germany. But due to strong criticism from some German lawmakers, German Foreign Minister Maas and Interior Minister Zehofer agreed to tighten security regulations on 5G construction.

October 2019: Huawei announced the opening of a 5G joint innovation center in Swiss telecom company Sunrise, Huawei’s first 5G research center in Europe

December 17, 2019: Huawei will launch the P40 Pro without Google services in March 2020. Telecom said it will significantly reduce the use of Huawei’s 5G core network equipment

IFA 2020: President of Huawei’s European Consumer Business: Since 2010, Huawei has invested a total of 850 million euros, creating 223,000 jobs for Europe in 2019 alone.

July 22, 2020: The French National Cyber ​​Security Agency (ANSSI) notified that it reminded the country's operators that the validity period of the use license for Huawei equipment can only be maintained until 2028.

October 9, 2020: Huawei held the completion ceremony of Lagrangese R&D Center in Paris, France. The institute will cooperate with the Ile-de-France region where Paris is located. focuses on mathematics and calculations. This is the sixth R&D center of established by Huawei in France.

• September 16, 2014: Huawei's first French R&D center is located in Sofia Science and Technology Park, France
• June 14, 2016: Huawei established a mathematical R&D center in Boulogne, France
• 2018: Huawei announced that it will set up its fifth R&D center in Grenoble , a city in southeastern France, mainly responsible for the research and development of sensors and software.

October 20, 2020: The Swedish government formally requires domestic operators to dismantle Huawei and ZTE devices on the grounds of security issues, becoming the first country in the EU to explicitly prohibit the use of Huawei ZTE products in 5G infrastructure.

December 17, 2020: Huawei announced that it will go to France to build a factory in 2021. The factory will produce chipsets and motherboards, components required for 4G and 5G base stations, etc. The preliminary site is in the French town of Brumath, with a total investment of 200 million euros (1.6 billion yuan). Construction will start at the end of 2021 and will be officially put into production in 2023. This will be the first mobile device factory outside China.

July 2021: Huawei announced a patent licensing agreement with a supplier of the German Volkswagen Group. The agreement includes the Huawei 4G Standard Essential Patent (SEP) license, which is the largest license agreement reached by Huawei in the automotive field

Q32021: Huawei's sales in Europe fell to the bottom, with a share of only 0.5%, ranking tenth, down 94% year-on-year.

October 27, 2021: Huawei European Service and Technical Support Center was completed in Madrid, the capital of Spain, providing technical support to major telecom operators in 10 European countries

November 2021: Hungary invites Huawei to participate in the construction of the railway port project . Huawei will use its 5G technology to help it establish an intelligent multimodal railway hub. It is said that the project orders are 444.14 billion yuan.

December 27, 2021: According to Reuters , a source in Spain's largest telecom operator Telecom (Telefonica), said the company has purchased 5G network equipment from Swedish manufacturer Ericsson to replace part of its Huawei equipment deployed in Spain.

January 2022: Huawei filed an arbitration at the World Bank Group International Investment Dispute Resolution Center (ICSID), claiming $3 billion from the Swedish government. Because it issued a ban on Huawei 5G, it violates trade fairness

April 5, 2022: European Patent Office (EPO) released the "2021 Patent Index" report, showing that after winning the championship in 2019, Huawei applied for 3,544 patents in Europe in 2021, surpassing South Korea's Samsung to be the first.

June 22, 2022: Regarding Huawei's appeal in October 2021, the Swedish Court of Appeal-Stockholm Administrative Court upheld the ruling of " ban on Huawei's 5G equipment in Sweden in 2020 " and determined that Huawei and ZTE 5G equipment that have been installed in must be removed before January 1, 2025.

July 2022: T-Mobile Dutch company announced that Ericsson, as its only supplier of 5G network equipment, will no longer renew wireless transaction contracts with Huawei, and will also reach a long-term commitment with Ericsson to provide 3G, 4G and 5G wireless network equipment

Ren Zhengfei said: In fact, Huawei has been in constant crises over the past 30 years, either this crisis or that crisis, and some crises are even serious enough to endanger the lives of the company. Therefore, this US crisis has hit us hard, but it is not very big.