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Huawei Reveals In-House Operating System HarmonyOS

Huawei released its 2018 Sustainability our part in contributing to social and energy-efficient. With the right solutions,
Report. It has published this report for economic development.” Liang explained Huawei’s 5G will be a green technology.
the 11th year in a row. The 2018 report that environmental protection is also a Kevin Tao, Board Member and Chairman
explains Huawei’s four strategies for key component of Huawei’s sustainable of Sustainable Development Committee
sustainability: digital inclusion, security development initiatives. Liang added, of Huawei, remarked, “We want to bring
and trustworthiness, environmental “Energy efficiency has become a major the benefits of digital technology to every
protection, and a healthy and harmonious consideration for future communications person, home, and organization. To this
ecosystem. Over the past year, Huawei networks. We have to use less energy end, we have launched a global digital
has been working to help achieve the UN’s to transmit more data, and reduce the inclusion initiative called TECH4ALL.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), overall energy consumption of power For example, our RuralStar solution has
build a sustainable and more inclusive systems. ICT technologies can help.” connected 40 million rural residents as of
ecosystem with its industry partners, and Liang explained that Huawei has made the end of 2018.” Tao added, “We currently
execute its own sustainability strategies. many innovations in the course of its provide communications services to over
At the launch event for the report, Liang 5G research, product development, and three billion people around the world,
Hua, Chairman of Huawei, said, “Huawei engineering. Huawei has managed to and we are committed to supporting
has been creating value for its customers reduce the power consumption per 5G site secure network operations worldwide. We
through innovation. We are doing to 20% less than the industry average. This honor this commitment no matter what.
everything we can to bridge the digital has been made possible by the new Huawei For example,” he said, “In 2018, after a
divide and meet the world’s needs for chipsets, system software, professional magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit Indonesia,
connectivity,” Liang continued, “We want services, and advanced hardware and heat Huawei was the first and the only vendor to
to make digital services more affordable dissipation technologies. These innovative the scene.” Tao also announced Huawei’s
and equally accessible to all, and to do technologies have made Huawei’s 5G more new sustainability strategies, which
include two major changes. First, Huawei
has expanded its strategy of bridging
the digital divide into a digital inclusion
strategy. Building on connectivity, the
company is now also paying more attention
to applications and skills. Second, its
strategy of supporting stable and secure
network operations and protecting user
privacy has been upgraded into the
“security and trustworthiness” strategy.
Huawei incorporates sustainability in
everything it does – in its innovation,
value creation, and value sharing with its
partners – so that it can deliver greater
business value and social value. Looking
forward, Huawei will work even harder and
do its part in building a better, sustainable
future.

Algar Stages 3.5GHz 5G Test with Huawei

Brazilian regional operator Algar Tele- 3.5GHz spectrum, after the issuance of a Huawei Mate 20X 5G smartphone, which is
com has staged a 5G trial in association trial license by the National Telecommu- not yet commercially available. Download
with Chinese vendor Huawei and the Uni- nications Agency (Agencia Nacional de speeds surpassed 1Gbps, while upload
versidade Federal de Uberlandia (UFU). Telecomunicacoes, Anatel). For testing speeds reached 114Mbps.
According to the telco, the tests utilized purposes, Huawei provided Algar with its

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