Huawei is a Chinese multinational

Multinational corporation

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 networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Shenzhen

Shenzhen

Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China's first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones...

, Guangdong

Guangdong

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, China

People's Republic of China

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. It is the largest China-based networking and telecommunications equipment supplier and the second-largest supplier of mobile telecommunications

Mobile telephony

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 infrastructure equipment in the world (after Ericsson

Ericsson

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).

Huawei was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei

Ren Zhengfei

Ren Zhengfei is the president of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd , headquartered in Shenzhen, China. Forbes magazine listed Mr...

 and is a private company

Privately held company

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 owned by its employees. Its core activities are building telecommunications networks; providing operational and consulting services and equipment to enterprises; and manufacturing communications devices for the consumer market.