Huawei shares cloud strategy for Pacific islands

Source: Huawei. From left: Loyley Ngira, Chief Executive of Solomon Telekom Company and David Wei, President of Huawei Southern Pacific Region, officiating the launch of Video Cloud Services.

Huawei has outlined its cloud strategy and introduced new services to help telecom operators and governments drive digital transformation in the Pacific islands. Huawei also announced a partnership with Solomon Telekom Company Limited (STCL), a major operator in the Solomon Islands, to offer cloud-based gaming, music and video services through a cloud hosting platform to its subscriber base.

David Wei, President of Huawei Southern Pacific Region, said: "In the next 10 years, we will enter a new digital era, where all things are sensing, connected, and intelligent. Cloud will be the centrepiece of all things digital and more industries and enterprises will be using cloud models to serve customers. It is estimated by 2025, all enterprise IT solutions will be transferred to cloud and more than 85% of enterprise applications will be deployed to the cloud. Industry demands for cloud have shifted from cost reduction and operation efficiency to operation innovation and business innovation. Cloud services will become the basic business model."

Huawei will provide a cloud hosting platform enabling operators throughout the Pacific islands to offer cloud-based gaming, music and video services, while unlocking new opportunities for consumers, enterprises and governments. Huawei is also offering a turnkey services solution to the Pacific Islands, enabling better network deployment to support subscriber populations of any size.

Faced with stiff competition and stagnant growth of traditional services such as voice calls, STCL is focused on developing new revenue-generating services. With Huawei's Gaming Hosting Solution, STCL will launch high-quality gaming services to enhance its subscribers' experience, while transforming itself into an advanced data service provider and increasing its competitiveness in the market. Under the partnership, Huawei will provide the platform, content aggregation and operational assistance for STCL to build its cloud services.

Loyley Ngira, Chief Executive of STCL, said: "The Solomon Islands has a young population with an estimated 50% of its citizens under the age of 25. With growing demand for entertainment experiences among this generation, we need a solution that will help us respond to their needs. Huawei Cloud Services will enable us to launch new gaming services that will not only add significant value for subscribers, but also help us grow our position as a leader of consumers' digital lives and drive new revenue streams. We believe our partnership with Huawei will have both a commercial and social impact in the Solomon Islands."

Huawei has worked closely with local governments and telecom operators across the Pacific Islands in the past 12 years to help modernise their networks and build higher quality submarine cable systems.

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