South Africa must move very, very quickly to ensure there’s greater connectivity across the country, says president Cyril Ramaphosa. Networking Huawei CyrilRamaphosa Upskilling 5G SAConnect Connectivity LeoChen
From left: China’s ambassador to SA Chen Xiaodong, president Cyril Ramaphosa, Huawei Sub-Saharan Africa president Leo Chen and Huawei SA CEO Will Meng at the opening of the Huawei Innovation Centre.
The president said digital technology and the business services sectors are key pillars of SA’s investment strategy, which is why government focused on several structural reforms in the ICT sector, such as the auctioning of high-demand spectrum. He added it’s worrying to hear connectivity penetration in provinces like KwaZulu-Natal is only at about 11%.
The centre brings together Huawei’s different business units – consumer, enterprise, carrier and cloud computing – in a collaboration hub with local partners, app developers and ICT-focused SMMEs. Chen Xiaodong, ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to SA, added: “The digital economy has increasingly become an important area of the China-South Africa business co-operation.
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