NEC’s next CEO Takayuki Morita, who takes over in April 2021, has said he is looking to  increase overseas sales from 25% of revenues to over 50% on the back of innovation in 5G among other areas.

Yesterday the UK digital secretary Oliver Dowden  announced that the UK government would fund an O-RAN  trial with NEC. 
The NEC NeutrORAN project will be based in Wales and will aim to see live 5G Open RAN within the UK in 2021, testing ways to deploy 5G networks in the most cost effective and secure way.
NEC is expected to be supporting the roll out of 5G in the UK, which will help the company achieve its foreign sales goals.

“There is a strong need for a safe and secure network,” Morita told a Tokyo press conference yesterday, adding “there will be a huge opportunity for this.”
Morita is currently CFO at NEC and is taking over from  CEO Takashi Niino.