Huawei not planning and large takeovers or are they?

Reuters FRANKFURT (www.reuters.com) reported the following on Huawei.

China’s Huawei, one of the world’s largest telecoms network infrastructure providers, is not planning any large takeovers because it would be unable to integrate them, Deputy Chairman Guo Ping was reported as saying in German paper Welt am Sonntag.

Ping, one of three deputy chairmen who take turns acting as chief executive, was responding to the paper’s question on whether he could imagine buying one of Europe’s big players in the sector, such as Nokia or Alcatel-Lucent.

Huawei, which is also one of the world’s leading handset manufacturers, last month ruled out the possibility of buying another mobile phone maker. However, Ping said that it would be open to cooperation with another handest company, the paper reported.

Ping also rejected allegations from the U.S. Congress that technology from Huawei might be used to spy on its users and denied accusations by the European Commission that it would dump goods on the market at artificially low prices.

Whenever a company denies something like this, it means they probably are looking at options. But apart from looking at the options, they are also looking at the cost of such an acquisition, politics and implementation.

Huawei might also believe they don’t need anybody else as they are starting to release some fine craft.

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