Smart technology for a smart nation

HUAWEI may not be a household name here, but the Chinese telecommunications giant's networks serve many of the world's mobile phone service providers. In Singapore, it works closely with all three of the major telcos - M1, Singtel and StarHub - to drive the technological transformation of the country's mobile network. In fact, more than 60 per cent of users here - numbering in the millions - are using a Huawei-powered network in their daily lives.

"Singapore has always been at the forefront of information and communication technology (ICT) development in Asia, and Huawei is honoured to have been a part of Singapore's strategic ICT sector and contributing to the industry's advancement for the past 14 years," says Zhou Bin, chief executive officer of Huawei International.

He notes that Huawei supported StarHub in its efforts to set up cloud computing capabilities in 2011. Two years later, the company worked with M1 to deploy Singapore's first 4G LTE Network. And recently, in late 2014, Huawei jointly established the 5G Joint Innovation Program with Singtel.