Global ICT solutions provider, Huawei officially
launched its first global training centre outside China in Malaysia,
with plans to inject another $30 million in the next two to three
years to upgrade its existing ICT facilities. Huawei Technologies
(Malaysia) Sdn Bhd deputy managing director Foo Fang Yong said the
investments will include acquiring new technologies and distance
learning facilities.
“We are committed to bring in the latest
technology into Malaysia and we will keep on refreshing the
technology at the centre and the lab. The amount of investment is
difficult for me to project. The effort would be similar to what we
made in the last two years,” Foo told reporters after the official
launch of its Malaysia Global Training Centre by Prime Minister Datuk
Seri Najib Tun Razak.
To date, he said the Chinese company has made close
to $30 million investments in Malaysia, which includes the
facilities, equipment and the training centre. He said Huawei also
plans to triple the number of trainers to 150 by 2015 from the
present 50 trainers, with aim to develop Malaysian talents in the
field of telecommunication and ICT.
Speaking at the launch, Najib said the centre, which
is designed to provide the latest telecommunication and ICT
technology training to Huawei’s global customers from Asia-Pacific,
the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, is expected to be a major
contributor to gross national incomes by 2020.
Najib said it is also part of Huawei’s goal to
train and develop 10,000 Malaysian ICT and telecommunication
professionals by 2016, following an agreement between the firm and
the government in April last year.
Huawei Malaysia managing director Dai Jngyue said
the company also sealed agreements with 10 local universities that
will initiate the setting up of 10 Huawei University Training Lab
under MSC Malaysia MyUniAlliance (Huawei) programme in each of the
universities.
This, he said was to further cultivate the interest
of students in the field of next generation ICT technologies such as
cloud computing, Long Term Evolution (LTE) and fixed broadband.
The universities are Universiti Kuala Lumpur,
Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Multimedia
University, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia,
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,
Universiti Teknologi Petronas and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman.
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