Connectivity Champion Award 2022

Huawei entered Africa in 1998. Since then, we have worked with African customers to enable more African people to connect to high-quality telecommunications networks so that they can enjoy digital life equally. Over the past two decades, we have focused on building a better connected Africa. Today, we have deployed more than half of the wireless base stations in Africa, more than 70% LTE high-speed mobile broadband networks, and more than 50,000 km of optical fibers.

Huawei mission and vision is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected and intelligent world. Connections are the foundation of digital economy and should be equally available to everyone. This is a great challenge today. Huawei and local operators have been working together to have more connections and make the ICT technology easier to deploy and more accessible to all through the innovative technologies, All of these will greatly reduce global poverty and bridge the digital gap.

We will continue to invest heavily in R&D to maintain our competitive edge and meet our customers. We firmly believe that digital technology will benefit everyone, every family, and every organization. This is also our vision and mission goal, Bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

The progress of the digital economy across Africa is incredibly dependent on the infrastructure - including the broadband infrastructure - and access to it. The penetration of ADSL and FTTH services still remains marginal in the continent compared to developed countries. And Orange's award-winning Livebox Fibre - provided by ZTE - aims to address this issue and cover the gap in the fixed broadband infrastructure.

Ooredoo is a leading international communications company delivering mobile, fixed, broadband internet and corporate managed services tailored to the needs of consumers and businesses across markets in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia.

Inwi is a leading telecommunication company based in Morocco, with more than 50,000 branches. Its internet connectivity products include modem and portable Wi-Fi connectors, offering a release of the access by the generalization of the very high-speed networks, the advent of professional offers that guarantee a guaranteed permanent and symmetrical flow rate, flexible service availability, and bandwidth options on demand and simplification of tariffs and the reduction of distance barriers.