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Huawei Middle East President Highlights Huawei’s Commitment to the
Region Telecom and Other Sectors and Industries Digitalization and

Sustainable Development Through Advanced Green Technologies

Steven Yi, President of Huawei Middle drivers. Yi highlighted. Additionally, during others. Last year, we unveiled the largest
East, highlighted Huawei’s commitment the Summit, leading regional operators cybersecurity and transparency center
to support governments across the region and Huawei launched IntelligentRAN, an around the world in Dongguan China, and
achieve their digital transformation visions advanced telecom network solution, which we hope that we will be able to invite you to
with 5G networks and other advanced comes in line with Huawei’s objective to visit there after the pandemic to experience
technologies as an enabler. This took place empower the telecommunication sector this open collaboration platform targeted
during an exclusive media roundtable with more advanced innovations and value at addressing cybersecurity challenges
from 10 Middle East countries held on the for its own business and other sectors and and come up with joint innovations for
sidelines of the SAMENA Leaders’ Summit industries businesses by means of injecting improving the future of cybersecurity.”
2022, the top telecom industry event intelligent to wireless networks and achieve Yi continued. Steven Yi also stressed on
hosted by Huawei for the 9th consecutive autonomous driving network in the wireless Huawei’s commitment to support building
year and attended by industry leaders, domain in the future. “The intelligentRAN digital economies in the Middle East region
experts and decision makers from telecom architecture is constructed to develop a “We need to be united to establish unified
companies, regulatory bodies, industry mobile network with intelligent service laws and regulations so that the digital
organizations and related stakeholders operation, intelligent network optimization, economy can be protected.” “Huawei
from SAMENA Region (South Asia, Middle and simplified O&M. This feature helps has worked with customers to deploy
East North Africa). Steven Yi stressed on customers and partners quickly provision 5G technology and hope to see more use
the importance of the telecom sector as services and guarantee user experience, cases of 5G in vertical industries in the
an enabler for other industries’ sustainable maximize user experience, reduce energy Middle East region. We are committed to
development and growth in light of the consumption, and simplify O&M in multi- openly collaborate with our customers and
evolving 5G landscape and the immense frequency and multi-mode scenarios.” With partners and extend our innovations and
opportunities for enterprises in the 5G era. digital technologies advancing rapidly, global expertise to the region players for
Yi also noted that Huawei, together with securing networks and cybersecurity achieving more value in 5G deployment, in-
carriers and partners, has signed 3,000 5G continues to be Huawei’s top priority. “We line with the ME countries socio- economic
commercial contracts, and that 5G saw have a sound cybersecurity and privacy growth.” Yi said. “In terms of R&D, we will
large-scale commercial deployment in protection assurance structure which has a continue to invest heavily to serve our smart
many industries, including manufacturing, leading global record.” Steven Yi said. “Our and intelligent future. In 2021, We invested
mining, steel, port, chemical, cement, power practices in cybersecurity have won the over 22% of annual revenue in R&D targeted
grid, and healthcare. "Middle East countries continuous trust of our partners including at supporting the long-term sustainable
are leading globally in 5G deployment. those in the Middle East. We believe that development of the ICT industry, we will
As an end-to-end leader in 5G, cloud, AI, cyber security is a shared responsibility continue to invest significantly in intelligent
devices and chips, Huawei will continue its and it’s crucial to have an open discussion solutions and services such as ICT
commitment to help countries in the Middle around cybersecurity governance infrastructure and cloud services.” Yi added.
East achieve their visions with digitization architecture in line of international But focusing and expanding the digital
and sustainable development as key standards like 3GPP, GSMA NESAS and space comes with its own concerns over
energy consumption, therefore, Huawei
has made sustainability as a priority to
achieve a low-carbon society through
continuous technological innovation. “In
the Middle East, Huawei Digital Energy is
working with industry partners to develop
the digital energy industry, building a low-
carbon telecom sector, homes, factors,
parks and smart cities, and moving from a
low-carbon society to a zero-carbon one.”
At the moment, over 100 operators from
across the world have deployed Huawei’s
low-carbon solutions, reducing carbon
emissions by 40 million tons. On talent
development, Huawei’s long-term strategy
in the MEA region is aimed at developing
ICT knowledge for various markets by
leveraging their strengths in advanced
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