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Ergonomic Design of Products
Huawei is well aware of its responsibility and
obligation in product health and safety. We have
established a special product ergonomic design
team, and adopted a scenario-based approach
to product safety design in all R&D procedures,
from product planning and design to development
and testing. Owing to these efforts, our products
can better meet users’ ergonomic and technical
requirements, and are free of potential health or
safety risks during product installation and use
stages.
By the end of 2015, Huawei had developed user
scenarios for leading carriers in 25 countries in
Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa,
and Asia. In 2015, we expanded our surveys
in African countries to better understand local
engineering delivery and user habits. Our innovative
User scenarios analyzed by Huawei globally
Number of countries in which user scenarios have been analyzed
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scenario-based design approach has ensured that
our products are easy to install and use, with
significantly reduced health or safety risks.
Sustainable World
Communications for All
More than 87% of the world’s population is within reach of a mobile signal, but that leaves 13% without. Often
those people live in remote areas with a sparse population and low incomes. The technical difficulties of building
networks in these remote environments and providing power for them only increase the already high per capita
cost of network construction.
Huawei has worked with our customers to install 2G networks in some of the remotest and poorest parts of the
world, often powered entirely or partly by solar energy. Our innovations reduce the capital and operating costs of
equipment. During network deployments, we collaborate with our customers so that the networks can be upgraded
with small hardware and software tweaks at a later date to bring faster broadband speeds as local circumstances
(including the availability of spectrum resources) change. In 2015, we constructed several 2G and 2.5G networks
in remote areas in countries such as India, Ghana, Azerbaijan, and Jordan. These networks have put convenient
mobile communications services into the hands of more local people.
Broadband Inclusion for All
With over four billion people still offline, and the rate of new Internet users beginning to drop, there is a real fear
that the benefits of broadband Internet may never reach the majority of the world’s population. In developing
countries, up to two thirds of the population may be offline.
In 2015, Huawei launched a new white paper entitled Digital Enablement: Bridging the Digital Divide to Connect
People and Society. It clarified the challenges of bridging the digital divide in detail, and provided specific tools
and recommendations that we can all use.