A long term agreement to develop joint activities and launch innovative services
Shenzhen (China), September 20th 2016 - Fastweb and Huawei have signed a multi-year strategic partnership to develop innovative solutions and services in the area of fixed-mobile convergence and wireless services.
The agreement has been signed at Huawei headquarters in Shenzhen by Alberto Calcagno, CEO of Fastweb and Edward Chan, CEO of Huawei Italy.
The strategic partnership objective’s is to develop innovative solutions and services starting from the area of fixed-mobile convergence and wireless solutions.
Both companies will make available human resources, technologies and know-how that, through a dedicated team, will allow to develop products and services that Fastweb will launch on the market to strengthen its strategy and commercial offer.
The first project will cover the small cells technologies, as premise to develop 5G services, leveraging both on Fastweb technological assets and on licensed and unlicensed spectrum frequencies.
Meanwhile, the collaboration between Fastweb and Huawei, started in 2012, will continue to develop innovative broadband solutions, both in fiber and copper, which have contributed to realize Fastweb ultrabroadband network. As of today, it reaches 7 million houses and families at an access speed up to 200 Mbps.
“We start today a new way of collaboration on innovation” commented Alberto Calcagno, CEO of Fastweb. “Thanks to this agreement, Fastweb can access to Huawei global R&D resources on very specific and vertical topics. This agreement, by sharing human and technological resources, will represent a further accelerator of innovation for Fastweb, bringing great advantages to our customers”.
“The agreement signed today at our headquarters consolidates a long lasting partnership, that is being enriched by further technological and strategical developments” declared Edward Chan, CEO of Huawei Italy. “Developing innovation together with our customers is one of the founding values of Huawei and we are proud to do it in areas that can bring Fastweb to realize ambitious objectives, like the transition to 5G”.