Huawei Announces US$400 million in African Contracts

Huawei Technologies announced US$400 million in networking contracts from the incumbent telecom operators in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria.


Kenya's biggest mobile operator, SAFARICOM, selected Huawei for a US$34 million project to reconstruct and update its Intelligent Network.


Zimbabwe's state-owned fixed-line operator TEL*ONE and mobile operator NET*ONE awarded contracts to Huawei valued at US$288 million and US$40 million, respectively.


Huawei will provide network expansion and optimization solutions to TEL*ONE, which include switches, a national transmission backbone, CDMA equipment, and other Intelligent Network and data communications products. In the project with NET*ONE, Huawei will provide GSM equipment and services, expanding on the existing 170,000 lines of GSM that Huawei provided early this year.


Nigeria's second large mobile operator, Vmobile, selected Huawei to provide GSM base stations worth US$80 million. Vmobile plans to deploy GSM wireless equipment across 15 of the 36 Nigerian states. Huawei is also an equipment supplier for Nigeria's largest mobile operator, MTNhttp://www.huawei.com