Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloglu visited the exhibition of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
At the Congress, the Minister got acquainted with the stands of Vodafone, Huawei and Ulak Communication and received information about their products.
During a visit to the Huawei stand, Uralogl said: “We have been cooperating with your company for a long time. We want you to increase our investments in Turkey. We expect you to make more investments in research and development in Turkey.”
The representative of Huawei in Europe Jim Lu noted that Turkey is the best country in Europe as a working environment for the company: “We can lead an honest, transparent business here. We have 29 research centers in Europe, the largest of them is in Istanbul and the second in Munich.”
The responsible representative of Huawei in Turkey Kaya Shi said that the company is making efforts to contribute to the development of Turkey in the field of R&D.
“In our unit of R&D 97 percent of employees – local, and 80 percent of managers are local. We also want to increase our investments in R&D. R&D includes hardware and software. If you introduce local conditions here, this will motivate us and stimulate the R&D,” he said.