Huawei celebrates 11 years in Uganda

As part of its celebration of 11-years of business in the East African country, Huawei Technologies officially opened a new office in the capital, Kampala.

Speaking at the opening of the new offices, Huawei managing director for Uganda, Eric Yang, said his company was proud to be associated with progress it made in the East African Region.

Yang said Huawei had registered tremendous success in the ICT sector, especially telecommunications and better environment that supported research and development in the country.

Meeting customers' demands

"Huawei business is on the rise day by day and our innovative is becoming outstanding to meet the demands of various customers in Uganda," Yang said.

Chinese Ambassador to Uganda, Zhao Ya Li said the Chinese government was pleased to be associated with Huawei, saying it had played a big role in developing ICT sector, not only for Uganda, but for Africa through various innovations.

"Huawei has made us [China] proud while making huge business in Uganda. It [Huawei] has focused on developing the ICT sector of the country, in their dream of enriching life through communication, and I would like to applaud Huawei for sharing its development technology from China with Uganda through the knowledge transfer initiative with most of its employees.

In Uganda, Huawei entered the market in 2001 and has expanded and built productive cooperation with Ugandan telecommunication operators as well as constructing backbone network for Uganda with the preferential loan of import and export bank of china.