In remote areas that are often sparsely populated and located in difficult geographical environments, telecoms infrastructure is more often than not underdeveloped due to the fact that providing telecom services in such areas means low returns on their investment for service providers.

In order to enhance communication and accessibility in such rural regions, Huawei has developed customized technology that adapts to difficult environmental conditions at a relatively lower cost of deployment and operation, thereby enabling service providers worldwide to bring the power of communication to rural areas more cost-effectively.

Indonesia

CDMA 450 in Tibet

Pakistan Villages

	Connecting Islands As the largest archipelago in the world, Indonesia has thousands of islands spread across its large territory, posing as a considerable challenge for service providers who wish to provide wireless nationwide coverage. Together with Excelcom, Huawei provided a customized network solution that provides coverage for 70% of the territory through satellite transmission, allowing the most remote islands to be connected. The network delivers GSM and GPRS services, and has the ability to provide more than 40% of the population with access to communication. CDMA 2000 in Remote Areas Indonesian telecoms operator Mobisel wanted to upgrade its NMT450 analog system to a 3G network in some of the most sparsely populated regions in order to improve the country's telecoms infrastructure. Huawei delivered an end-to-end, innovative and cost-effective solution that is based on the 3G CDMA 2000 1x interface and offers broader coverage of up to 120km, thus resulting in the need for fewer base stations and lower deployment costs. This solution gave Mobisel the ability to switch effortlessly from their analog system to providing high-speed and quality voice 3G data services in less than six months, thereby significantly improving communication throughout Indonesia.