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Huawei Releases Global Connectivity Index in Lagos

The world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker, Huawei Technologies, has on May 7 in Lagos, released the Global Connectivity Index (GCI), covering 50 countries including Nigeria. According to Huawei, the GCI also covered 90% of the world’s population.

Through the GCI, Huawei shows the level of connectivity, speed of communication through various channels including mobile phone, broadband and the internet as well as investment in the Information and Communications Technology industry in the countries sampled.

Having overtaken Ericsson as the largest telecommunications equipment maker in 2012, Huawei has strategically spread its tentacles across virtually all nooks and crannies of the globe, taking on Africa especially seriously in what many have translated as riding on the back of China’s economy handshake to Africa and translating the economic relationship into practical terms.

Releasing the GCI in Lagos at the Huawei Cloud Congress (HCC) West Africa 2015, President of Huawei Western Africa Region Mr. Peng Song, explained that the 2015 GCI “sheds light on the growing opportunities around the world.”

According to the report, majority of developed countries are “Leaders” in the index. For instance, the United States of America ranks the highest among surveyed countries with Sweden, Singapore and Switzerland leading the GCI.

Chile, China, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) lead the developing markets, with all three ranking in the high teens to low twenties overall. Developing market leaders are characterised by strong mobile adoption and overall access that is often comparable to developed markets, while typically lagging behind in terms of data centre investment and other core elements of ICT infrastructure.

In the report, Huawei stated that datacentre investment by developed countries is three times that of developing countries, which is the major catalyst of cloud proliferation as “the edge does not exist without the core.”

Ranking 47th in GCI, Nigeria was said to be among top three emerging broadband markets, having a “small fixed base but huge potential in the uptake of mobile products as it is one of the world’s largest mobile subscriber markets and offers impressive opportunities primarily in the mobile broadband space, where rapid m-Commerce uptake is driving market growth.”

The report stated further that Nigeria has “the highest number of internet users in Africa all of which accumulates to an improved potential within the country.”

Overall, the 2015 GCI shows that 20% growth in ICT investment will increase a country’s GDP by 1%. It also identifies five enablers of digital transformation – data centres, cloud services, Big Data, broadband, and the Internet of Things. These technologies represent the targets that stakeholders should focus their investments on in order to most efficiently transform their economies for the digital age.

Huawei emphasizes three recommendations for a better connected West Africa: Increasing Datacentre Investment, Developing Economies Need to Moving from Investing in Supply to Building Demand and Learning from Developing Countries’ success To Become Global GCI Leaders.

Accordingly, it stated that all economies are digitising, and the GCI provides a guide of who’s ahead, who’s behind, why, and who is poised to move up or back.

“The Global Connectivity Index is not merely a ranking of countries. We see it as a platform to partner with policymakers and enterprise leaders to identify, harness, and create new digital economy opportunities with the aim of building a Better Connected West Africa,” the president stated.

Huawei forecasts that by 2025, as many as 100 billion connections will be generated globally, 90 per cent of which will come from intelligent sensors. This increase will be attributed to enterprises becoming enabled by the internet. By leveraging connectivity to streamline business processes, reduce costs and improve efficiency, enterprises will drive innovation and move the focus from a consumer driven internet to an industrial one.

Mr. Peng added, “Make IT simple, Make Business Agile. It is an amazing era with rapid growth and data explosion. In this dynamic environment, Huawei will continue to invest in IT industry, emphasising on the concept of being integrated, customer-centric and providing customers with innovative, differentiated, leading-edge products and solutions. ”

Huawei launched the FusionCloud Solution and OceanStor V3 Converged Storage solutions at HCC. Accenture, Etisalat, Fidelity bank, Intel, SAP and other Huawei partners shared the cases of deploying Huawei enterprise business solutions to enable the business success.

 

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