PTCL, Huawei successfully deploys AirPON Solution

PTCL, the country’s premier Telecom and ICT services provider has successfully deployed AirPON Solution from Huawei Technologies, in its Fiber Access Network. AirPON is a unique and innovative Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) solution, that leverages existing cellular mobile network infrastructure to extend Fiber footprint, with improved Total Cost of Ownership and better Time to Market.

AirPON employs a purpose built pre-connectorized Optical Distribution Network (ODN) components, which offers a unique, efficient and agile deployment, that minimizes fieldwork through plug-n-play approach, while also greatly improving the quality of installation. The infrastructure available at cellular mobile sites is exploited for field deployment of Optical Line Terminal (OLT) Equipment, to serve its housing, power and transport needs. This solution is yet another step forward on PTCL’s roadmap for meeting rapidly growing consumer data traffic demands, by expanding its Fiber Access Network in areas otherwise difficult to reach for deployment.

Jafar Khalid, Group Chief Technology Officer, PTCL Group, said, “We are committed to uplifting our customer experience through adoption of state-of-the-art products & solutions. PTCL and Huawei achieved another milestone by successfully introducing AirPON solution in our Network. We continue to invest in new technologies and products to modernize our network, with a major emphasis on expediting the reach of high-speed fiber access network to maximum customers, and AirPON solution will be a key enabler in meeting this ambition.”

Ahmed Bilal Masud, Huawei Pakistan Deputy CEO, stated that “Huawei is always committed to work closely with PTCL Group to explore the right solutions for meeting the evolving business requirements. Our goal is to offer innovative solutions to PTCL Group, while committing to minimize the deployment cost and time to market, with network simplification and emerging technologies. We believe that AirPON will pave the way for increasing fiber reach in the country, and support PTCL to offer fast internet services to its valuable customers.”

Meezan Bank provides First-of-its-kind Shariah-compliant solution to Inland Bill Discounting Facility for Huawei Technologies Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited

Karachi, March 24, 2022: Meezan Bank – Pakistan’s first and largest Islamic bank has successfully instituted an Islamic alternate to Inland Bill Discounting Facility for Huawei Technologies Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited – a first-of-its-kind transaction in Islamic banking industry, developed as a Shariah-compliant alternate to local bill discounting facility. The first drawdown under the facility was made against a deferred payment inland Letter of Credit (LC) opened by Pak Telecom Mobile Limited (Ufone) in favour of Huawei. The transaction has been developed by the Bank under the supervision and guidance of Dr. Muhammad Imran Ashraf Usmani – Vice Chairman Shariah Board, Meezan Bank, after a series of deliberations and persistent efforts.

On this occasion, Mr. Abdullah Ahmed – Group Head, Corporate & Institutional Banking, Meezan Bank stated, “Meezan Bank is pleased to offer yet another milestone solution for the Islamic banking industry i.e., a Shariah-compliant alternative to discounting of long tenor inland bills with provision of variable profit rates. We are hopeful that this solution will serve as a precedent for unique transactions pertaining to trade within telecom industry.”

Mr. Ahmed Ali Siddiqui – Group Head, Shariah Compliance, Meezan Bank, stated, “This endeavour of Meezan Bank displays its capability to develop out-of-the-box, innovative and Shariah-compliant solutions and reinforces its position as the leading Islamic bank of the country. We hope this solution will open a new chapter in facilitating trade among businesses and industries in a Shariah-compliant way and bring more businesses and trade into fold of Islamic banking.”

Huawei Technologies Pakistan recognizes outstanding digital skills – ‘Girls who Code’ – at PM Secretariat

Huawei Technologies Pakistan recently celebrated ‘Girls who Code‘ event held at the PM Secretariat, Islamabad. To mark the occasion Huawei Technologies donated 150 tablets to the girls program by way of Ministry of ITT. Huwaei’s continuous support of female empowerment is a driving force for the development of Pakistan. The organizations primary goals involves working with the people of Pakistan where by women and girls can become useful contributors’ to their families and thereby contribute to the national economy. Skills in the new digital age represent an enormous opportunity for the digitally adept youth of Pakistan and Huawei stands by its commitment and will continue to support the ministry of IT and women of Pakistan in this noble cause.

Present at the event was the honorable Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who eloquently pointed out: “Huawei and Microsoft have been kind enough to be a part of this program which is of great meaning to us. This program is mainly to bring digital knowledge to the girls of Pakistan so that they can gain employment opportunities and become a support for their families and mainly for themselves. Government of Pakistan and the IT ministry are committed to provide access to internet all over Pakistan, so that connectivity can become common and people can benefit from it. This program fits perfectly to our vision of providing employment for youth of Pakistan. This program aims at bridging gender divide as well as digital divide. More and more opportunities will be created for women of Pakistan. They hold the talent hence they should be appreciated to learn and excel in the field of coding. This program should serve as a model for other countries and should be a real source of inspiration for all. Successful implementation of this program is of great pride to all Pakistanis and especially to me.”

Anusha Rahman IT Minister stated that; “Huawei was kind enough to ask what they could do for us, we asked them to help the girls, equip them, give them tablets and they were generous enough to do so. These girls had not seen computers ever in their lives, this was made possible through efforts and support of USF, Microsoft and Huawei. These girls have been trained on computer skills and they have computer skills so that they can benefit for themselves and their families. They will be an earning hand for their families. It’s is our responsibility to provide these girls with education to take their passion of coding ahead. Through enabling themselves they have become teachers, entrepreneurs etc.”

Huawei believes that it is essential to engage the vast and competitive female segment, around the globe, to enable robust growth in every business and social sector. All the developed nations have been successful in capacity building, as they have fully developed the potential of their women. It is the need of the hour for Pakistan, to sharpen the skills and recognize the contributions of its digitally skilled female workforce, while celebrating the accomplishments of this neglected segment.

2018 GSMA Award Presented to Huawei for Outstanding Contribution to the Mobile Industry

The GSMA Award presented to Huawei Technologies with the 2018 Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Mobile Industry. The award was presented at a special ceremony held last evening, where Huawei was recognized for decades of advocating new technology standards, driving digital transformation, and building out the digital ecosystem.
At the ceremony, Ken Hu, Rotating and Acting CEO at Huawei accepted the award on behalf of the company. “Over the years, we have worked with many of you to advance 3G, 4G – and now 5G and other ICT technologies,” he said, “so that more people can get connected and enjoy better services. In this time, Huawei has connected over one-third of the world’s population. I’m proud of what we’ve achieved, but the mobile industry is evolving. It will soon become the cornerstone of a fully connected, intelligent world, and we still have a lot of work to do.”

Ken Hu, Rotating and Acting CEO of Huawei (left), accepting GSMA Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Mobile Industry from Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of GSMA (right) in Barcelona

The GSMA Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Mobile Industry recognizes individuals, companies and organizations that made significant contributions to the development of the ICT industry and the advancement of mobile communications. In addition to its technological contributions, Huawei was recognized for its commitment to collaboration with the industry: it actively participates in over 360 standards bodies, industry organizations, and open source communities, where it has played an instrumental role in cultivating the broader digital ecosystem.

On behalf of the GSMA, I would like to congratulate Huawei on its commitment to pushing the industry forward,” said Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, GSMA and Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises. “In just 30 years, they have managed to become the largest supplier of mobile networking equipment in the world. Their contribution to global standards, approach to innovation, and commitment to helping customers and partners succeed will have a lasting impact on the future of our industry.

Since its founding in 1987, Huawei has expanded from a small reseller of telephone exchange equipment to a global market leader in telecom and enterprise network solutions and consumer devices.

Through its history the company has shown a strong focus on research and development. From 2007 to 2016, Huawei’s total R&D investment surpassed US$48 billion dollars, having invested $11 billion in 2016 alone. In recent years, Huawei has concentrated on building out the next generation of digital infrastructure by driving innovation in cloud, artificial intelligence, and 5G technologies. It continues to funnel 10%-15% of its annual revenue back into R&D each year.

For more information on the 2018 GLOMO Awards, visit: www.globalmobileawards.com/

MWC 2018 will be held from February 26 to March 1 in Barcelona, Spain. Huawei will showcase its products and solutions at booth 1J50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1, booth 3I30 in Hall 3, and the Innovation City zone in Hall 4. For more information, please visit www.huawei.com/mwc2018/

Metallic Huawei Honor 5X Phablet Launched in Pakistan

One of the latest Honor phablets in being brought into Pakistan – the Huawei Honor 5X. It is a X series smartphones in the Honor series and comes with more higher end specifications than the normal sized Honor 5 and is also a major upgrade over the Honor 4x.

About the Huawei Honor 5X

This phablet has a metal design on an aircraft grade aluminium body with a 5.5 inch 1080p IPS LCD display. It has an octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor with 2 or 3 GB RAM depending on the availability in the market. This version is to be launched with 2GB Ram with 16GB internal storage and microSD card support of upto 128GB.

Inspite of the low cost, the Honor 5X has state-of-art fingerprint sensor at the back just below the camera with a device unlock speed of just 0.4 seconds. Also next to the fingerprint scanner is a 13MP camera with dual LED flash and a 5MP camera in the front.

The battery department has a 3,000mAh unit for Quick Charge of upto 50% in 30minutes. The phone comes with dual SIM support and 4G LTE support on both SIM slots.

Huawei Honor 5X has the following Specifications:

CPU: 1.5 Ghz quad-core + 1.2 Ghz quad-core Cortex-A53
Chipset: Snapdragon 615
GPU: Adreno 405
OS: Android 5.1.1 Lollipop with Emotion UI 3.1
Fingerprint scanner
Supported Networks: 2G, 3G, 4G LTE Dual-SIM
Design:

Display: 5.5” with 1080p resolution (401 ppi)
Dimensions: 151.3 x 76.3 x 8.2 mm

Memory:

RAM: 2/3 GB (Pakistan will get 2GB variant)

Internal: 16 GB
Card slot: expandable by 128 GB

Camera:

Primary: 13 megapixel with dual-tone LED Flash
Secondary: 5 megapixel

Connectivity: NFC, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, 4G LTE
Colors: White. Black, Gold
Battery: 3,000 mAh, Quick Charge supported
Expected Price: Rs 18K-20K ($160)

Honor 5X will be equipped with Android Lollipop with Huawei’s Emotion UI 3.1 on top. Availability of the phone is made in 3 colors and is placed a little higher than the price in the Chinese market.

By making the availability of premium smartphones for all price ranges Huawei is attempting to take control of the Pakistan smartphone market. The launch of 5X brings the best of smartphones which may be something the Pakistan smartphone market needs from one of the top phone manufacturers of the world.

New Brand Shop of Huawei Opens in Lahore

Huawei has a substantial number of brand outlets for its customers all over Pakistan however considering high sales, the organization has introduced another brand shop in Lahore.

Inaugural function of this new brand shop was held in the incidence of the Huawei General Manager for devices in Pakistan –Mr. Shawn. Media personals, technology bloggers and extensive number of Huawei clients went to the ceremony. The recently initiated brand outlet is arranged in the Hassan Center opposed to well-known Hafeez Center in Lahore.

Special visitor of the ceremony was Ms. Fizza Ali, who saw the ribbon cutting function at 3:30 toward the evening. It is likewise to be specified here that the service and the inaugural of the new brand shop here in Lahore by Huawei is emerged with the cooperation of AIRLINK COMMUNICATION and M&P

The Huawei brand Shop is a One-Stop solution for investigating and acquiring the unlimited scope of Huawei customer electronics with genuine Huawei guarantee.

Huawei Launches 4G Enabled Ascend Y550 for Just Rs. 17,499

Huawei has published the accessibility of its Ascend Y550 in Pakistan with an appealing sticker of Rs. 17,499.

Offering the 4G-LTE empowered integration, this new gadget guarantees to satisfy all the social networking , correspondence and info-tainment needs of the tech-insightful and aspiring customers.

Through an exceptional dispatch offer, the purchasers of Huawei Ascend Y550 will get a Free 6 GB Zong 4G- LTE information bundle for 3 months (2 GB every month).

The President of Huawei Devices Business Group Middle East – Jiao Jian expressed that;

“It is delightful to see the overwhelming response from the consumers in Pakistan, as we introduce this feature-rich smart device in the country.

The Ascend Y550 is a genuine image of Huawei’s constant interest to construct a more joined world, to ‘Make it Possible’ for individuals to appreciate the captivating universe of 4G network and experience the modern telecom administrations accessible on the planet today.”

Here are determinations for Ascend Y550:

Processor: Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53
Chipset: Qualcomm Msm8916 Snapdragon 410
OS: Android v4.4.2 (Kitkat) with Emotion UI 2.3
Design:

O Dimensions 5.24 x 2.68 x 0.37 inches

O Weight: 153 g

Display:

O type: IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16m colors

O size: 4.5 inches (~61.7% screen-to-body degree)

O resolution: 480 x 854 pixels (~218 ppi pixel density)

Memory:

O internal: 4 GB

O ram: 1 GB

O card Slot: microSD, up to 32 GB

Camera:

O primary: 5 MP, 2592 х 1944 pixels, self-adjust, LED glimmer

O secondary: 2 MP

Connectivity: 3g, 4g, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, hotspot, Bluetooth v4.0, A2dp, LE, A-GPS, GLONASS, Radio FM radio,microUSBv2.0
Sensor: Accelerometer, nearness, compass
Battery: Li-Ion 2000mah
Price in Pakistan:Rs. 17,499.

Huawei Honor smartphone sales increased 20 times in a year

Nokia in the market, such as Apple and Samsung had great players, but gradually improved product by introducing a budget-friendly prices gained momentum when Chinese manufacturers, please check the smartphone arena, was not overwhelming at first. It Xiaomi smartphones in 2014 and was one of five successful brands, Huawei also a constant and the number of smartphones Huawei Honor budget of 20 million to 1 million in sales will increase online strategy.

, After observing its successful online business that has been copied from it Xiaomi decent deal with a strategy to penetrate emerging markets, in honor of the company’s strategy to play an important role in the success of smartphones, but the company online Smartphone decided to go online.

The company blamed the continued growth and its executive and its local competitors to recruit the best brands in just a few years the growth in the near future it Xiaomi hopes to overcome. Chinese brands that success was something very unusual about.

The president of the company’s online strategy to adapt to the inevitable calls for very competitive prices. He According to Reuters, the e-commerce market approach and the extent to soak for Change is necessary for Huawei added.

But it Xiaomi OnePlus Huawei and Lenovo are also online strategy and Lenovo also sell online to a whole unit, said online is not the only one who got involved.

Q3 2014 IDC Xiaomi Mi top five smartphone manufacturers in the world, entered and took third place in the list that said in October. It Xiaomi smartphones shipped 17.3 million units are incredibly good stake in the company and E4 is shown.

The problem of honor occupied only part of the emerging markets and to reduce their prices, India, Brazil and Pakistan has pushed other local brands, but because of the company’s profit margins increase and are not to do it, analysts Company in developed markets with decent price ranges to focus more on high-end devices are recommended. Latin America and South Asia, the company Honor arm with its enormous potential, Europe needs to penetrate the market.

Honor 6 announced Karen Extreme Edition 928 processor

(Also known in China as Gloria 6) Huawei Honor started about 4 months ago 6 release of its flagship smartphone. Huawei Huawei Ascend D series of smartphones crown led high-end hardware cross the line of smartphones in June. Snapdragon smartphone genuine respect 6801 <countries and packing some serious power to compete with the RAM, 3 GB, 920 Octa-core processor line high Karen was inspired by Huawei.

In a press conference in Beijing today, “honor 6 ultra edition” known as the successor to Huawei Honor smartphone introduces 6. 928 processor running at 2GHz biggest difference in this new smartphone is powered by Karen New HISILICON all. Honor to be using six Vincent and the ARM Mali GPU-T628MP4 processors 1.7 GHz processor and runs on 920 928 920 Karen Karen version can also.

In addition, a real honor 6 6 Extreme Edition processor and NFC Honor 1080P screen, 3100mAh battery and camera module 6 Honour and almost had the same internal hardware components. The two smartphones 6. 16GB or 32GB variants truly honor 6 the difference between the variants are capable of being used will not be able to identify, 32 GB of internal memory, a look at the standard Extreme Edition comes with. This software, now, Honor 6 UI 3.0 with Sense UI 2.3 Standard paired with a sense of honor 6 ultra edition of Android 4.4 KitKat ships free download.

Huawei highly improved processor, NFC and other features 6 different versions that respect is introduced? Huawei Honor 6 Ultra Edition of only 9,999, designed to measure the response acccessories 2 NFC few special headphones, including a shell, protective cover, Huawei’s “Road Force” smartphones mobile will make fall (down) and 0.2 mm thick tempered glass screen saver. This phone October 21 and China, the region seems preorders. In June of current smartphone to respect the expected retail price $ 481, about $ 100 more expensive.