MTN, Huawei open Joburg tech lab that focuses on artificial intelligence
Africa’s biggest wireless carrier, MTN, has opened a research lab with Huawei in Johannesburg, deepening ties with the Chinese company and potentially accelerating the roll out of new technologies on the continent.
“Before we start deploying the new tech in one of our markets, we are able to test the efficiency and value of it in our own lab,” Mroue said. “Usually the tests would be done in a vendor’s lab, and you will have to go with their outcome - but with our latest initiative, we can test all technologies ourselves, with whichever vendors, European or non-European.”
South Africa, where MTN is based, has said it won’t succumb to international pressure to stop using Hauwei’s equipment in its technologies. The country’s ambassador to the five-nation BRICS bloc said in August that the country had faced “tremendous pressure” from the US to stop using Huawei’s network, which it planned to resist.
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