Huawei, Giesecke & Devrient Sign MoU on Global Connectivity on IoT

Huawei and Giesecke & Devrient had signed an alliance collaboration agreement to promote global connectivity services, designed to remove the entrance barrier for device makers, which seeks to deliver global connected products and solutions. The global connectivity services greatly simplify the supply chain logistics, reduce commercial deployment cost and enhance the service experience for products such as connected cars, wearable devices, smart meters, and others.

Multinational enterprises, especially chinese multi-national enterprises will greatly benefit from a proven, integrated e2e platform delivered by two market leading companies.

The global connectivity services are to provide one stop, low-cost connectivity services with a guaranteed quality of service and efficient access to local network connectivity through secure Over-the-Air provisioning of a local Mobile Network Operators (MNO) subscription, which can allow the enterprise design and produce one product type for all the countries around world.

President of Huawei Software and Member of the Management Board at Huawei, Mr. Zhang Pingan, and the Group Executive Mobile Security and Member of the Management Board at Giesecke & Devrient, Mr. Zhang Pingan, attended the signing ceremony, and signed the Memory of Understanding on behalf of Huawei Software and Giesecke & Devrient respectively.

The two companies are expected to create with this partnership, an opportunity to combine their product strengths and resources. Huawei contributes with its global mobile network management services and infrastructures and G&D brings in its M2M SIM card portfolio and its secure managed services for the product life cycle management of the machine to machine and Internet of Things (M2M/ IoT) devices and SIM cards.

With the signing of the MoU, both companies said they are very proud to serve and innovate the important growing M2M/IoT market.