Name: Benoza, Airish Joyce O.

Course, Year, & Section: BS Criminology 1-C

WORKSHEET 2 - GLOBAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS (SHORT RESEARCH)

INSTRUCTIONS:
This activity is geared towards familiarizing oneself to an international economic organization
(e.g. Asian Development Bank) or an international company (e.g. Honda, McDonald’s, etc.)

1. Choose 1 international economic institution or an international company/corporation.

2. Research on the following: (a) the origins and history of the institution you have
chosen; (b) map the international connections it has created; (c) identify the major
country-leaders of this institution; (d) locate the Philippines in this map of
interconnections.
3. Then answer this question: How does this institution influence global economic
activity? How does it affect economics in the Philippines?

Discuss your points clearly. Don’t forget to cite your sources, use APA citation style. A
worksheet is provided here.
Do not copy-paste from the internet. You can read references (like articles and
researches) but make sure to write in your own words.

TCW WORKSHEET NO. 2 – GLOBAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS (RESEARCH)

International Economic Organization or Transnational Company (add a short description):

Huawei Telecommunications Equipment Company

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a multinational technology business based in
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It is a significant global provider of smart devices and
information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure.

a. the origins and history of the institution you have chosen:

Huawei Technologies began as a rural sales agent for Hong Kong-based phone and cable
network companies in Shenzhen, China, in 1987. As China's urban population exploded from 1996
to 1998, Huawei began expanding into metropolitan areas.
Global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company predicts that China’s urban
population will hit the one billion mark by 2030 and have 221 cities with over one million inhabitants
by 2025 compared to 35 in Europe. Huge cities necessitate complicated communication networks,
and Huawei has continued to expand and meet this demand at a breakneck pace.
Huawei's products and solutions are currently in use in more than 170 countries, servicing
more than a third of the world's population. After Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco, Huawei is the third-
largest global maker of routers, switches, and other telecommunications equipment by market share,
 and the company has lately entered the ultra-competitive smartphone race.
For many observers, Huawei has seemingly come out of nowhere to become one of the
world’s most dominant technology brands. Its biggest gains have come outside the public eye, as it is
primarily a business-to-business (B2B) firm. Huawei's expertise is used by phone and internet
carriers to provide services to clients under their own brands, not Huawei's. Due to its Chinese
origins, it was also unknown internationally. Huawei has been able to expand despite remaining
relatively isolated, with up to one-fifth of the world's population living within its own Chinese
boundaries.

MartinRoll Business and Brand (Feb. 2018) Transforming A Chinese Technology Business To A Global Brand.
https://martinroll.com/resources/articles/strategy/huawei-transforming-chinese-technology-business-global-brand/

b. map the international connections it has created:

 In 1997, Huawei won a contract to provide fixed-line network products to Hong Kong Company
Hutchison Whampoa. Later that year, Huawei launched its wireless GSM-based products and
eventually expanded to offer CDMA and UMTS.
 In 1999, the company opened a research and development (R&D) center in Bangalore, India to
develop a wide range of telecom software.
 In May 2003, Huawei partnered with 3Com on a joint venture known as H3C.
 In 2005, Huawei's foreign contract orders exceeded its domestic sales for the first time. Huawei
signed a Global Framework Agreement with Vodafone. This agreement marked the first time a
telecommunications equipment supplier from China had received Approved Supplier status from
Vodafone Global Supply Chain. Huawei also signed a contract with British Telecom (BT) for the
deployment of its multi-service access network (MSAN) and Transmission equipment for BT's
21st Century Network (21CN).
 In 2007, Huawei began a joint venture with U.S. security software vendor Symantec Corporation,
known as Huawei Symantec.
 Huawei bought out Symantec's share in the venture in 2012, with The New York Times noting
that Symantec had fears that the partnership "would prevent it from obtaining United States
government classified information about cyber threats".
 In May 2008, Australian carrier Optus announced that it would establish a technology research
facility with Huawei in Sydney. In October 2008, Huawei reached an agreement to contribute to a
new GSM-based HSPA+ network being deployed jointly by Canadian carriers Bell Mobility and
Telus Mobility, joined by Nokia Siemens Networks. Huawei delivered one of the world's first
LTE/EPC commercial networks for TeliaSonera in Oslo, Norway in 2009.
 In July 2010, Huawei was included in the Global Fortune 500 2010 list published by the U.S.
magazine Fortune for the first time, on the strength of annual sales of US$21.8 billion and net
profit of US$2.67 billion.
 In October 2012, it was announced that Huawei would move its UK headquarters to Green Park,
Reading, Berkshire.
 Since 2016, German camera company Leica has established a partnership with Huawei, and
 Leica cameras will be co-engineered into Huawei smartphones, including the P and Mate Series.
The first smartphone to be co-engineered with a Leica camera was the Huawei P9.
 In September 2017, Huawei created a NarrowBand IOT city-aware network using a "one
network, one platform, N applications" construction model utilizing IoT, cloud computing, big
data, and other next-generation information and communications technology, it also aims to be
one of the world's five largest cloud players in the near future.
 In April 2019, Huawei established Huawei Malaysia Global Training Centre (MGTC) at
Cyberjaya, Malaysia, which is Huawei's first training center outside of China.
 In 2020, Huawei partners with Dutch navigation device company TomTom for Google map
alternative.
(Rahman,2016)

c. identify the major country-leaders of this institution:

 Founder: Ren Zhengfei
 Headquarters: Shenzhen, China

d. locate the Philippines in this map of interconnections:

 Huawei Technologies Philippines Incorporated on Philippines.
 Huawei partners with Globe to launch the first 5G smartphone in the Philippines.
 DICT partners up with Huawei Philippines to empower young entrepreneurs

How does this institution influence global economic activity? How does it affect economics in
the Philippines?
Huawei has an impact on global economic activity by continuing to provide services and products
to people who own smartphones and other devices, which have become an integral part of their daily life.
The smartphone's potential to cross the technology and infrastructural gap that exists in the
underdeveloped countries is another great impact. Mobile technology, particularly increasingly affordable
smartphones, holds enormous promise and economic potential for businesses all around the world.
In the Philippines, communication and collaboration skills have improved dramatically. Without a
doubt, the capacity to speak with people from all over the world has aided the Philippines' economic
development. In the Philippines, online retailers are becoming more well-known and lucrative, and people
with smartphones have access to hundreds of them.