One billion people using Huawei GSM gear

Stephen Withers
Wednesday, 03 November 2010 17:32

IT Industry - Market

China-based communications giant Huawei claims that more than a billion GSM users are now served by its radio access networks.

One billion users accounts for around a quarter of the global GSM market. Huawei reached the milestone when it completed the construction of a GSM network for MTN Nigeria.

"This milestone was achieved due to the close and mutually beneficial relationships we have with our customers," said Wan Biao, Huawei's president of wireless networks "MTN's subscriber base, among which GSM users are predominant, has grown annually by 25 percent, demonstrating that GSM remains the best choice to satisfy voice service demand for mobile users. We hope that our partnership with forward-looking operators like MTN will lead to another billion users!"

Navi Naidoo, CTO of MTN Group, said "Huawei's partnership has been integral to MTN's success over the past few years. Due in large part to Huawei's GSM infrastructure, we are able to provide high-quality GSM services to 120 million subscribers across the entire African continent and several countries in the Middle East."

Huawei hopes to win at least some of the contracts for the supply of hardware to Australia's NBN project.