Huawei honored with Vodafone ‘2015 Extraordinary Contribution to Project Spring & Vodafone 10 Years Partnership’ awards

[London, UK, Feb. 1, 2016] Huawei today announced that it has been recognized in Vodafone’s Annual Supplier Awards for: “Extraordinary Contribution to Project Spring, 2015 and ‘10 Years’ Partnership with Vodafone”.

Huawei won the “Extraordinary Contribution to Project Spring” award for the second time in two years, reflecting its outstanding contribution to Vodafone’s Project Spring. Project Spring is an incremental increase in capital expenditure by Vodafone to create the largest and fastest period of network investment in the company’s history. The investment programme is designed to place Vodafone at the forefront of the growth in customer demand for mobile data and the increasing trend towards the convergence of fixed and mobile services for individuals and businesses. The award recognizes Huawei’s commitment, speedy rollout across all target countries, guaranteed high network performance and effective management of delivery.

Huawei was further honored for 10 years’ partnership with Vodafone in recognition of its unwavering dedication and exceptional contribution to the telecoms operator as a long-term strategic partner.

The awards were jointly presented by Detlef Schultz, CEO of Vodafone Procurement Company, and Ninian Wilson, Director of Technology, Vodafone Supply Chain Management, at the Vodafone Supplier Awards Ceremony in Amsterdam.

James Chen, President of Vodafone Account Department at Huawei, said, “We are very pleased to receive the Extraordinary Contribution to Project Spring award from Vodafone for the second time since the project started, and be recognized for 10 years’ partnership with Vodafone. Huawei takes pride in having been entrusted by Vodafone in Project Spring, one of its most significant global projects ever. Together with Vodafone, we have built our partnership from humble beginnings to today’s remarkable achievements on joint innovations which have evolved as industry standards. The 10 Years Partnership award captures the essence of the famous Chinese saying “Distance tests a horse’s strength” as we just celebrated this significant milestone last year. Huawei will continue to dedicate our unique customer-centric services to Vodafone and we look forward to extending our successful partnership to many more ‘10 years’ in the future.”

Since its partnership with Vodafone commenced in 2005, Huawei has received seven awards from Vodafone Group. In 2008 Huawei was named ‘Outstanding Performance Supplier’. In 2009 and 2012, Vodafone Group named Huawei its ‘Global Supplier of the Year’. Huawei was further named ‘Responsible Supplier of the Year’ in 2013 and awarded ‘Extraordinary Contribution to Project Spring’ in 2014.