Huawei Now Serves More Than One Billion GSM Users Worldwide

I'm excited to be one of the one billion users of Huawei's GSM technology, said Navi Naidoo, CTO of MTN Group. Huawei's partnership has been integral to MTN's success over the past few years. Due in large part to Huawei's GSM infrastructure, we are able to provide high-quality GSM services to 120 million subscribers across the entire African continent and several countries in the Middle East.

This milestone was achieved due to the close and mutually beneficial relationships we have with our customers, said Wan Biao, President of Wireless Networks, Huawei. MTN's subscriber base, among which GSM users are predominant, has grown annually by 25 percent, demonstrating that GSM remains the best choice to satisfy voice service demand for mobile users. We hope that our partnership with forward-looking operators like MTN will lead to another billion users!

GSM is the most widely-deployed mobile telephony standard in the world. Huawei has invested substantially in its GSM solutions and set the 2G network data rate record of 564Kb/s with its industry-leading EDGE+ technology to bring high-bandwidth 3G experiences to 2G users over GSM networks. As a result, Huawei's GSM solution has been adopted by nearly every mainstream GSM operator around the world. Since the second quarter of 2009, the shipment of Huawei's GSM products has been ranked number one in the world, according to research firm Dell'Oro.