11:30 AM -- SHANGHAI -- As you may have seen already, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has announced a new growth strategy that involves selling smartphones direct to consumers and targeting enterprise customers with cloud services capabilities. (See Huawei Aims for $100B Annual Revenues and Huawei's Enterprise Vision Gets Cloudy.)

But what challenges will the giant Chinese vendor face in bringing that new strategy to market? Heavy Reading Senior Consultant Berge Ayvazian attended Huawei's analyst conference in Shanghai this week and outlined some of the issues the company will need to overcome as it expands beyond the telecom infrastructure world.



— Ray Le Maistre, International Managing Editor, Light Reading