'They didn't understand the market' - Channel reacts to Huawei pulling enterprise kit from UK

Marian McHugh
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The Chinese vendor announced this week that it was pulling networking, server and storage kit from the UK market. CRN gauges channel sentiment on the abrupt departure and what it means for resellers

"Huawei is good but nobody uses them," said one channel figure on the news that the Chinese vendor is to pull some products from its enterprise range from UK shelves. The networking giant will s...

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