• Earlier this month Huawei was in attendance at the Africa Tech Festival 2022 to outline its latest innovations and underline its focus to connect the unconnected.
• To deliver on that aim, the company announced that it has signed a pledge with the International Telecommunications Union.
• The pledge was signed at Huawei’s Corporate Sustainable Development Forum in Shenzhen, China, earlier today.

This month Huawei was in attendance at Africa Tech Festival 2022, where the company not only unpacked its latest telecommunications innovations, but also outlined a focus on connecting the unconnected.

Here the company explained that while 5G is the exciting new technology, 4G and 3G still have critical roles to play, particularly in connecting those on the African continent.

Now Huawei is looking at how it plans to connect more of the unconnected globally, having signed a pledge at its Corporate Sustainable Development Forum (CSD) in Shenzhen, China, earlier today.

The company says it pledges to connect 120 million people living in rural areas by 2025, focusing on 80 countries specifically for the objective, as part of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Partner2Connect digital alliance.

“Connectivity will be more than just a tool for convenient communications. Together with digital technologies like cloud and AI, connectivity will help bring everyone into the digital world, and provide them with access to more information and skills, better services, and wider business opportunities. This will, in turn, drive further social and economic development,” said Dr Liang Hua, chairman of Huawei (pictured in the header image), during his keynote address at the CSD 2022 Forum.

Part of delivering on this objective will be two key technologies, according to Huawei’s Cao Ming, president of Wireless Solution.

“We have continuously upgraded the RuralStar and RuralLink solutions to extend quality coverage to remote areas, enabling more people, community hospitals, schools, local governments, and small- and medium-sized enterprises to enjoy the same high-speed broadband connectivity experiences as those in cities,” they explained.

Huawei adds that the RuralStar series solutions have provided connections for more than 60 million people in remote areas in more than 70 countries so far.

With the company also planning to leverage its optical fibre and high-speed broadband solutions too, it has quite the task ahead of it, should it wish to reach the 120 million objective within the next two and a bit years.

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