At the venue of pre-MWC Briefing in London, William Xu, Executive Director of the Board and Chief Strategy Marketing Officer of Huawei presented the company’s mission to build a better-connected world through collaboration. It announced ‘five big initiatives’ for the telecom industry to accelerate its digital transformation.

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Among the five big initiatives are the open labs for joint innovation, an eSDK platform for developers, $1bn Developer Enablement Program, a novel collaboration with consultants and software partners to build an industry-specific ecosystem, and also an innovation with upstream and downstream partners.

The open labs, meant to support the rapid commercial use of new services, bring together around 600 partners. Around 10 open labs are getting ready for deployment across China, Europe and other regions. eSDK platform for developers will deliver easy-to-use tools for development and technical support. While Huawei’s $1bn Developer Enablement Program will facilitate innovation in the field, its collaboration with consultants and software partners to build industry-specific ecosystems would bring integrated solutions to various industries.

“Digital transformation is a new engine for telecom industry growth, and it will also empower the innovation of other industries.” said William Xu, Executive Director of the Board and Chief Strategy Marketing Officer of Huawei, in London, “Huawei will continue to open up platform capabilities to help carriers to build an open, collaborative, and win-win industry ecosystem to accelerate digital transformation.”

Huawei has also developed open platform solutions for 2K/4K video, which aggregate content and enable innovation in video services. It focuses on cloud computing and is working with telecom operators to provide them the services. Huawei will focus on building IaaS, enabling PaaS and aggregating SaaS, to empower our partners in application oriented and data driven high-value creation.