Huawei scoops top award
Chinese company lauded for its innovative wireless solution to get the world connected
HUAWEI has been recognised at the just concluded International Telecommunications Union (ITU) 2018 Telecom World awards in Durban for its contributions in accelerating the global penetration of broadband connections.
The Chinese group was also lauded for its contribution to improving household and enterprise broadband connections. It won the Global Corporate Award: Sustainable Development accolade for its Wireless to the X (WTTx) solution.
The accolade aims to commend innovative technical solutions that improve global ICT indexes and speed up the development of broadband AFRICAN companies are forecast to increase their information technology (IT) budgets next year as digital emerges as the leading business priority for local chief information officers (CIOs).
According to the annual Gartner 2019 CIO Agenda, whose findings were released in Cape Town, CIOs in the continent expect their enterprise IT budget to increase 4.3% on average next year.
This is up from an average of 3.1% increase from the past year.
CIOs in Africa expect to spend the highest amount of new or additional funding next year on business intelligence and analytics (57% of respondents), cyber-security (46%) and digital business initiatives (39%).
CIOs (30%) have ranked digital as the leading business priority.
Business growth (23% of CIOs) was connections.
WTTx is a Huawei fixed-wireless broadband access solution. Based on existing mobile networks, WTTx uses Huawei’s device-pipe synergy solution, service management and O&M tools, and innovative QoS differentiation technology.
These technologies help to provide stable, high-speed broadband access in scenarios such as households, smalland medium-sized enterprise VPN access and wireless verticals.
Fixed broadband access on the mobile network, with the largest population coverage, will slash the costs of broadband deployment and user acquisition, increase revenue, and develop a win-win industry environment for governments, operators and named second business priority.
Gartner research director Tomas Nielsen said the rankings indicated local CIOs were making digital an integral part of their business strategy and planning.
“They clearly want digital-fuelled growth in 2019,” he said at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. Digital is not ‘nice’ end users. Qingwen Wang, general manager of Huawei WTTx Domain, said: “It’s a great honour for Huawei’s WTTx solution to be so highly recognised by the ITU.”
He said WTTx could quickly provide basic broadband connections, upgrade the rate of existing fixed broadband connections and continue to increase data rates.
“Huawei hopes to strengthen WTTx industry co-operation with all its partners to bridge the digital divide and allow more household and individual users to enjoy an optimal WTTx wireless broadband experience.”
According to the State of Broadband 2017, published by the ITU, 53% of people worldwide are connected to the internet. But due to limited to have. It’s mandatory. The investment in digital is increasing, and digital continues to gain currency across the economy in Africa,” Nielsen added.
Among other major findings, while cyber-security is the top digital technology deployment among CIOs in Africa, disruptive technologies are reaching a tipping point. investment in ICT infrastructure and payment capability, 66.3% of households remained unconnected.
The home broadband penetration rate was only 42.9% in developing countries and 14.7% in underdeveloped countries.
Improving home broadband penetration has become one of the top priorities for ICT transformation in all countries. Innovative business models and rapid technological evolution is required to reduce the home broadband access cost and improve the population coverage rate.
The latest report by data research and consulting business Ovum showed WTTx was deployed on 200 networks in 120 countries to connect more than 50 million households. – CAJ News
Nielsen said the journey into digitalisation would accelerate next year. The 2019 Gartner CIO Agenda Survey gathered data from more than 3 000 CIO respondents in 89 countries and all major industries, representing about $15 trillion (R215 trillion) in revenue/ public sector budgets and $284 billion in IT spending. – CAJ News