Keeping in pace with its increasing Indian operations, Chinese telecom networking company Huawei Telecommunications is planning to increase its workforce by 50 per cent to touch 90 professionals by June-end this year.
"We will add 30 professionals to our current strength of 60 to be able to cope up with the increasing work. Our team is getting strengthened to undertake more networking and deployment works for the existing contracts of BSNL and MTNL as well as for some future deals," S K Kapoor, director, Huawei Telecommunications India, told PTI in New Delhi.
These professionals will be deployed in product deployment, project management and sales and marketing at the Gurgaon centre, he said.
The company is also targetting broadband areas where it could market and undertake project work in data communications products like remote access server, routers, he added.
Huawei which mainly provides telecom switches to the telecom service providers has bagged orders from BSNL and MTNL.
The company has bagged a $50 million order for 800,000 lines with 400,000 each in Delhi and Mumbai along with its partner HFCL from MTNL for CDMA services.