Huawei Technologies, Kenya

Huawei has been in the East Africa region since 1998, covering Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, and Djibouti. Kenya is the regional Headquarters for East Africa. Around 65 per cent of Huawei employees are locals, creating more than 400 jobs both directly and indirectly.

 

Huawei has set up 22 regional headquarters globally. More than 3,000 trainees have benefited from the training centre, which helps our customers and local people to study advanced management and technologies.We firmly believe in localising our global operations, and make it a point to hire local employees. This not only enhances our understanding of the local market, but also contributes to the local economy by increasing employment, especially in less developed regions.

 

Based on Huawei’s equipment and solution, Kenyans enjoy various quality and affordable services, including Mobile Broadband (MBB), Value Added Service (VAS), Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) and ADSL through NGN, CDMA, GSMA, and UMTS. Huawei has been in the forefront in the introduction of 3G, LTE, and Android technologies in the Kenyan market.

 

 

Our Business

Huawei will continue to invest and play a leading role in provision of All-IP Convergence strategy to ensure that end users are able to experience consistent communication services anytime, anywhere. Huawei is committed to enriching lives through communication. We have built up product portfolios, including mobile network, broadband network, IP-based, optical network, telecom value-added service, and terminal.

 

Vision

To enrich life through communications.

 

Mission

To focus on our customers’ market challenges and needs by providing excellent communications network solutions and services in order to consistently create maximum value for customers.

 

Customer Focus

 

Serving our customers is the only reason Huawei exists; customer demand is the fundamental driving force of our development. High quality, excellent service, low operating costs, and giving top priority to meeting customer requirements to enhance their competitiveness and profitability.

 

Continuously performing management transformation to realise efficient processbased organisation operation for ensuring high quality end-to-end delivery. Developing with our peers in the industry as both competitors and partners to jointly create a favourable environment and share the benefits of the value chain.

Research and Development

Not only do customers need products and technology, but, more importantly, they need solutions that can bring them success in business. Huawei has already made the transition from being technology-oriented to being driven by customer requirements, from solely providing products to offering complete end-to-end solutions, allowing the development of our products to be driven by our customers’ success.

 

We continuously work towards improving our ability to innovate based on our customers’ needs. Huawei has been investing a minimum of 10% of our annual revenue into research and development, with 10% of that investment used for pre-research to stay at the forefront of new technologies and breakthroughs. At present, Huawei has already successfully rolled out products and solutions in areas including FMC, IMS, WiMAX and IPTV.

 

In addition, we have re-structured the organisational framework of our product line, in anticipation of future network convergence and industry transformation. Huawei provides complete end-to-end solutions in areas including the service and application layer, core layer, bearer layer, access layer, and terminals, thereby offering our customers distinct advantages to face network convergence.

 

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

 

The rapid rate of development and modernisation in the last century has come at the expense of our natural resources, which are being increasingly depleted. There is also an ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor, resulting from unbalanced social and economic development. Therefore, sustainable development is now no longer just about the need to balance economic and social progress with concern for the environment, but also encompasses human and social factors, including the fight against poverty.

 

We offer innovative communication solutions to people worldwide, in order to help people gain access to the Information Society. We continually strive to carry out our responsibilities as a corporate citizen, in order to ensure sustainable development. As an integral part of the society in which we operate, Huawei firmly believes in contributing back to the local countries and communities in which we operate, and strongly encourages our employees to do likewise. We aim to use our expertise in the telecommunications field to enrich the lives of people worldwide who still have limited access to communications in a world where the ability to be connected is increasingly becoming a necessity.

 

Huawei has participated in CSR initiatives in Kenya that include, but are not limited to, the Safaricom Marathon, Beacon of Hope, Rhino Charge, Red Cross Society of Kenya, Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital, SOYA Awards, Safaricom Kenya Classical Fusion, Shelter Children Rehabilitation Centre, Nairobi Women’s Gender Violence and Recovery Centre, Computers for Schools initiative, and building schools for orphans.

 

Awards

• Huawei in Kenya has also received the following awards:
• Lewa Trophy 2009, 2010 for Highest Corporate Fundraiser for the Safaricom Marathon
• Best Telecommunications Supplier Company of the Year Award KICTEA 2009